The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
A reprint of a science fiction novel originally published by Faber in 1973, in which the central character, the Rat, has to save the world before he can rescue his wife, when someone tampering with time is fading people out of existence into a timeless limbo.
A reprint of a science fiction novel originally published by Faber in 1973, in which the central character, the Rat, has to save the world before he can rescue his wife, when someone tampering with time is fading people out of existence into a timeless limbo.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780441779130 (0441779131)
Publish date: November 1st 1989
Publisher: Ace Books
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Humor,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
20th Century,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Time Travel
Series: Stainless Steel Rat -3 (#6)
Slippery Jim diGriz is getting told off by his boss, Inskipp, for stealing while on a previous mission for the Special Corps. Although, staffing a secret inter-galactic space police force with hardened ex-criminals is never going to be plain sailing I'd have thought. While he's being told off two th...
Two of my favorite genres - time travel and the Stainless Steel Rat. No explanation of why characters just "fade out" at the beginning of the story, and clearly no "parallel dimensions" hypothesis, but good fun regardless. As an aside, some good clean fun poked at 1970s Earth, the US in particular.
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