The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison is a paperback edition published by Bantam in 1988, featuring 256 pages in English. This installment follows Jim, who escapes from a prison cell on the League base on Steren-Gwandra while awaiting deportation. Alongside Bibs, a fellow prisoner, Jim seeks revenge against Captain Garth, who is revealed to be the ruthless General Zennor, intent on invading the pacifist planet Chojecki.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines themes of rebellion and survival in a science fiction setting. As Jim navigates the complexities of war and honor, he confronts Zennor’s plans to conquer Chojecki, a world unprepared for conflict. The story delves into the challenges faced by those who defy oppressive regimes, highlighting Jim’s unique position as the Stainless Steel Rat in a galaxy dominated by steel and iron-fisted rule.
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Jim was left in the custody of the League Navy, this story opens with him escaping from his prison cell on the League base on Steren-Gwandra, where he is awaiting deportation back to his home world. He has discovered that Bibs, a crew girl from Captain Garth’s ship, is also a prisoner. Jim holds Garth responsible for the Bishop’s death, and plans to hunt him down, with Bibs’ help. Garth is really the crazed Captain Zennor, head of an army which continually defies League peace treaties, and now plans to invade and conquer the planet Chojecki. The people of Chojecki are pacifists, having no armies and no police. But Garth’s generals decide to attack anyway, since there are no medals for “generals who bring back the troops intact”. Jim must save the people of Chojecki before he can face Garth.
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In a galaxy where civilization covers every world with steel and ferroconcrete, only a very special man can break all the rules and still stay free. A man who moves through the rafters of society like a rat. A Stainless Steel Rat . . . . And when the galaxy goes to war, it needs special men. That’s when
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted. The 25th century’s most dangerous outlaw is back–and this time it means war! Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, is seeking revenge for the murder of his mentor-in-crime, the fabled archcriminal known as The Bishop. His trail leads to Nevenkebla and the iron-fisted dictator General Zennor–the kind of man who’d sell his own mother into slavery just to see the expression on her face. Now in the uniform of a Nevenkeblan soldier, Jim discovers Zennor’s vile plan to enslave a defenseless planet. Only a man with a
Special code of honor–only a Stainless Steel Rat–can save the world from the invading horde.
About the Author
Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.
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