Harry Harrison Books In Order

Stainless Steel Rat Books In Publication Order

  1. Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
  2. The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
  3. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (1971)
  4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978)
  5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
  6. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985)
  7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
  8. Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
  9. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
  10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996)
  11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999)
  12. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010)

Stainless Steel Rat Books In Chronological Order

  1. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985)
  2. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
  3. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
  4. Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
  5. The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
  6. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (1971)
  7. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978)
  8. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
  9. Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
  10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996)
  11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999)
  12. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010)

Stainless Steel Rat (Game Books) Books In Publication Order

  1. You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985)

SF Authors Choice Books In Publication Order

  1. SF Authors’ Choice 2 (1970)
  2. SF Authors’ Choice 3 (1973)

Nova Books In Publication Order

  1. Nova One (1971)
  2. Nova 2 (1972)
  3. Nova 3 / The Outdated Man (1973)
  4. Nova IV (1974)

Bill, The Galactic Hero Books In Publication Order

  1. Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965)
  2. The Planet of the Robot Slaves (1989)
  3. On the Planet of Bottled Brains (With: Robert Sheckley) (1990)
  4. On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (With: David Bischoff) (1990)
  5. On the Planet of Zombie Vampires (With: Jack C. Haldeman II) (1991)
  6. The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (With: David Bischoff) (1991)
  7. The Final Incoherent Adventure! (With: David Harris) (1992)

Stars and Stripes Books In Publication Order

  1. Stars and Stripes Forever (1998)
  2. Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000)
  3. Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2001)

Tony Hawkin Books In Publication Order

  1. Montezuma’s Revenge (1972)
  2. Queen Victoria’s Revenge (1974)

To The Stars Books In Publication Order

  1. Homeworld (1980)
  2. Wheelworld (1981)
  3. Starworld (1981)

Deathworld Books In Publication Order

  1. Deathworld (1960)
  2. Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer (1964)
  3. Deathworld 3 (1968)

Eden Books In Publication Order

  1. West of Eden (1984)
  2. Winter in Eden (1986)
  3. Return to Eden (1988)

Brion Brandd Books In Publication Order

  1. Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation (1962)
  2. Planet of No Return (1981)

Decade Books In Publication Order

  1. Decade, the 1940s (1975)
  2. Decade, the 1950s (1976)
  3. Decade, the 1960s (1977)

Hammer and The Cross Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
  2. One King’s Way (1994)
  3. King and Emperor (With: John Holm) (1996)

Harry Harriston Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Plague from Space (1965)
  2. The Jupiter Plague (1965)
  3. Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
  4. The Technicolor Time Machine (1967)
  5. The Man from P.I.G. (1968)
  6. Captive Universe (1969)
  7. In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect (1970)
  8. Spaceship Medic (1970)
  9. The Jupiter Legacy (1970)
  10. Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (1972)
  11. Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (With: Leon E. Stover) (1972)
  12. The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974)
  13. Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974)
  14. The Lifeship / Lifeboat (With: Gordon R. Dickson) (1975)
  15. The California Iceberg (With: James E. Barry) (1975)
  16. Skyfall (1976)
  17. Mechanismo (1978)
  18. Planet Story (1979)
  19. The QEII is Missing (1980)
  20. Invasion: Earth (1982)
  21. A Rebel in Time (1983)
  22. The Turing Option (With: Marvin Minsky) (1992)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Navy Day (1954)
  2. The Velvet Glove (1956)
  3. The Repairman (1958)
  4. Arm of the Law (1958)
  5. The Misplaced Battleship (1960)
  6. The K-Factor (1960)
  7. Toy Shop (2010)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. War with the Robots (1962)
  2. Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965)
  3. Prime Number (1970)
  4. One Step from Earth (1970)
  5. The Best of Harry Harrison (1977)
  6. Galactic Dreams (1995)
  7. 50 in 50 (2001)
  8. Toy Shop and Two Others (2009)
  9. The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned (With: ) (2016)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Great Balls of Fire (1977)
  2. Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction (With: Malcolm Edwards) (1979)
  3. Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! (2014)

Best SF Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Best SF: 1968 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1969)
  2. Best SF: 1969 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1970)
  3. Best SF: 1970 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 4 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1971)
  4. Best SF: 1971 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 5 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1972)
  5. Best SF: 1975 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 9 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1976)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Golden Age of Science Fiction – Volume XIV (With: ,,,,E.E. “Doc” Smith) (2018)
  2. The Golden Age of Science Fiction – Volume XII (By:,,,,,,C.L. Moore) (2018)

Nebula Awards Books In Publication Order

  1. Nebula Awards 1 (By:Damon Knight) (1966)
  2. Nebula Awards 2 (With: Brian W. Aldiss) (1966)
  3. Nebula Awards 3 (By:Roger Zelazny) (1968)
  4. Nebula Awards 4 (By:Karen Anderson) (1968)
  5. Nebula Awards 5 (By:Alexei Panshin) (1969)
  6. Nebula Awards 6 (By:Thomas D. Clareson) (1971)
  7. Nebula Awards 7 (By:Theodore Sturgeon,Lloyd Biggle Jr.) (1972)
  8. Nebula Awards 8 (By:Isaac Asimov) (1973)
  9. Nebula Awards 9 (By:Kate Wilhelm) (1974)
  10. Nebula Awards 10 (By:James Gunn) (1975)
  11. Nebula Awards 11 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,Craig Kee Strete) (1976)
  12. Nebula Awards 14 (By:Robin Malkin) (1980)
  13. Nebula Awards 15 (By:Frank Herbert) (1981)
  14. Nebula Awards 16 (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (1982)
  15. Nebula Awards 17 (By:Joe Haldeman) (1983)
  16. Nebula Awards 19 (By:Marta Randall) (1984)
  17. Nebula Awards 20 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  18. Nebula Awards 21 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  19. Nebula Awards 22 (By:George Zebrowski) (1988)
  20. Nebula Awards 23 (By:Michael Bishop) (1989)
  21. Nebula Awards 24 (By:Michael Bishop) (1990)
  22. Nebula Awards 25 (By:Michael Bishop) (1991)
  23. Nebula Awards 26 (By:James K. Morrow) (1992)
  24. Nebula Awards 27 (By:James K. Morrow) (1993)
  25. Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow) (1994)
  26. Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1995)
  27. Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1996)
  28. Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  29. Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress) (1999)
  30. Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford) (2000)
  31. Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2002)
  32. Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress) (2003)
  33. Nebula Awards 38 (2004) (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (2004)
  34. Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman) (2005)
  35. Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe) (2006)
  36. Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman) (2008)
  37. Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow) (2009)
  38. Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett) (2010)
  39. Nebula Awards 45 (2011) (By:Kevin J. Anderson) (2011)
  40. Nebula Awards 46 (2012) (By:John Kessel) (2012)
  41. Nebula Awards 47 (2013) (By:Catherine Asaro) (2013)
  42. Nebula Awards 48 (2014) (By:Kij Johnson) (2014)
  43. Nebula Awards 50 (2016) (By:Mercedes Lackey) (2016)
  44. Nebula Awards 51 (2017) (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2017)
  45. Nebula Awards 52 (2018) (By:Jane Yolen) (2018)
  46. Nebula Awards 53 (2019) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2019)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus (1968)
  2. SF: Author’s Choice (1968)
  3. Apeman, Spaceman (1968)
  4. Backdrop of Stars (1968)
  5. Four for the Future (1969)
  6. Blast Off (1969)
  7. Worlds of If, February 1969 (1969)
  8. The Year 2000 (1970)
  9. The Light Fantastic (1971)
  10. The Astounding Analog Reader (1972)
  11. A Science Fiction Reader (1973)
  12. Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series (1973)
  13. The Astounding Analog Reader, Book 2 (1973)
  14. Astounding / The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973)
  15. Wondermakers 2 (1974)
  16. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974)
  17. Hell’s Cartographers (1975)
  18. Study War No More (1977)
  19. Tales from the Planet Earth (1986)
  20. Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987)
  21. There Won’t Be War (1991)
  22. Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010)
  23. Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 (2016)
  24. The Golden Age of Science Fiction – Volume XIV (2018)

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Harry Harrison Books Overview

Stainless Steel Rat

Jim DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz’ hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz’ dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he has fallen in love with her.

The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge

DiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet’s leader, Kraj. He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, and eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war and keep him out of the arms of the Amazons.

The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin’ sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens. The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens’ stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe.

The Stainless Steel Rat for President

This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment – liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator. With his lovely but lethal wife Angelina and his two stalwart sons, James and Bolivar, diGriz pits ballots against bullets in the fight for freedom. He’s vowed to restore truth, justice, and democracy to the world of Paraiso-Aqui, if he has to lie, cheat, and steal to do it! ‘The Rat can hold his head high amongst the most elevated superhero company – Bulldog Drummond, James Bond, and Flash Gordon included.’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘Pure entertainment…
Abounding in quick action and quicker jokes…
The Stainless Steel Rat series show’s Harrison’s talents at best advantage.’ – S. F. Review

A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

In this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat. Slippery Jim is here a brash 17 year old who has left his parents’ porcuswine farm, planning to embark on a life of crime. The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal. Deciding that the Bishop should be his mentor, Jim sets about proving himself worthy of the master’s attention. He eventually has to flee his home planet of Bit O’ Heaven with the Bishop, but Garth, the Captain of the ship who promised them safe passage, sells them into slavery. The latter part of the book details Jim’s adventures on the planet Spiovente, a semi industrial world fighting feudal wars with weapons smuggled in against League regulations by Captain Garth.

The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

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.

The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

Caught during a failed robbery, Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, cuts a deal to journey to a prison planet filled with homicidal maniacs to recover a lost alien artifact that puts his freedom and his life on the line.

The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell

Brand new adventure of slippery Jim DiGriz, the SF superhero the TLS compared to James Bond and Flash Gordon and the Daily Telegraph, called the Monty Python of the spaceways. While our anti hero is taking it easy on the resort planet Lussouso, his wife Angelina and her cavorting pals are at the temple ofEternal Truth, being bamboozled into believing that at last they can buy their way into heaven. When Angelina asks 1 pertinent question too many, Slippery Jim suddenly finds himself without a wife. Within the Temple of Eternal Truth lie the doors to Heaven and Hell to find Angelina, Jim and his twin sons will have to break down those doors and explore the worlds behind them. In outer space, the devil makes work for idle hands.

The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus

Slippery Jim DiGriz. The galaxy’s greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat. For novel upon novel, Jim DiGriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems. Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife Angelina find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime. Then they meet a billionaire who claims to be 40,000 years old who offers them millions of credits to investigate a string of unsolved interstellar bank robberies. Robberies which, it turns out, always happen when the circus is nearby…
. In a sense, The Stainless Steel Rat has always been a high wire performer. Now, as he infiltrates the world of the galactic big top, he’s taking the role to extremes…
and drawing the attention of more dangerous ringmasters and strongmen than he ever expected. Will this be his final show? Has Slippery Jim finally leapt for his last trapeze? Naaah.

The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

After a ten year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SFJames Bolivar ‘Slippery Jim’ DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal retired, is living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty when a long lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver’s Travels. In this darkly satiric work, Harry Harrison bring his most famous character out of retirement for a grand tour of the galaxy. The Stainless Steel Rat rides again: a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, in search of adventure, gravitons, and a way to get rid of the pigs.

You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat

The reader plays the part of a new recruit to the Special Corps, his mission: to travel to the planet Skraldespand to locate Prof. Geiteskrank and return with him in protective custody. The book features the usual collection of grotesque Harrison characters and impossible situations, and also manages to send up gamebooks themselves.

Bill, the Galactic Hero

It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven foot tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn’t interested in honor he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse…
From the sweltering fuse room aboard the Keeler, where he loses an arm while blasting a Chinger spaceship, to the Department of Sanitation far below the world city of Helior, where he finds peace, job security, and unlimited trash…
here is Bill, a pure hearted fool fighting a deluxe cast of robots, androids, and aliens in a never ending losing battle to preserve his humanity while upholding the glory of the Empire.

The Planet of the Robot Slaves

A sequel to the author’s ‘Bill, the Galactic Hero’, published over 20 years ago, this book is the first of a new series of novels featuring Bill. With two right arms, an artificial foot, and a set of surgically implanted tusks, Bill sets out to find the source of Chinger controlled metal dragons.

On the Planet of Bottled Brains (With: Robert Sheckley)

Bill, the galactic hero, is sent on a suicide mission to a planet from which no one has ever returned. En route, he must cope with the likes of Captain Dirk of the starship Gumption. Harry Harrison’s previous books include ‘Bill, the Galactic Hero’, while Robert Sheckley’s include ‘Mindswap’.

The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (With: David Bischoff)

Bill is the perfect starship trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed. He’ll also do almost anything to save his neck. Now he’s been sent to Barworld, home planet of the finest beverages in the universe. But can Bill survive an entire planet of blondes, booze and bathtubs of champagne?

Stars and Stripes Forever

On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert’s absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert’s calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war torn America. Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South’s defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?

Stars and Stripes in Peril

‘HARRY HARRISON IS ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION S MOST PROLIFIC AND ACCOMPLISHED CRAFTSMEN.’ The New York Times Book ReviewIn the midst of Civil War, a stunned North and South join forces to combat a sudden attack of British troops. Though the Americans are victorious, three years later a new threat emerges. Her Majesty’s Army is massing for a possible attack through Texas. Into the gauntlet Lincoln sends his chosen angel of death, General Ulysses S. Grant while his top soldiers, including Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman, plan the most daring naval invasion ever launched: an assault on British soil itself. Stars and Stripes in Peril is the new masterwork from one of the world s most provocative authors. Venturing beyond a fascinating question of what if? Harry Harrison brilliantly examines the people and passions that make up nations both great and small and shows how technology and politics had the power to shape history s first great World War…
half a century before it began…
‘Lovers of novels of alternate history hold Harry Harrison in high regard and his latest book can only enhance that esteem.’ Abilene Reporter News

Stars and Stripes Triumphant

In England, Irish born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Britain’s Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, and a loyal opposition, a day of reckoning is at hand…
and so is history s most astounding battle. Harry Harrison s series of alternate history, based on the U.S. Civil War, stands as a provocative work of imagination, drama, and brilliant historical insight. Now in the thrilling finale, Harrison tells a stunning, action packed story of America s rapidly growing military might being locked, loaded, and aimed at the heart of England itself. For the two countries that share a language and a heritage, the conflict began at the dawn of the U.S. Civil War. Just as America was about to tear itself to pieces, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. packet ship. In retaliation, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and took up arms against England. Repulsing a British invasion, and defeating her majesty s army first in Canada, then in Mexico, then in Ireland, American pride and power swelled. Britain, like a wounded lion, howled in shame and anger. Now, Queen Victoria s empire is more dangerous than ever before, turning against the Irish on her own soil, flexing her naval might, and all but forcing a weary President Lincoln to authorize the next step in a headlong journey toward war.A tale of daring and strategy, Stars and Stripes Triumphant explores how arrogance turns superpowers into victims, how regional conflicts can explode into world wars, and how the personalities of a few men and women can change the course of history itself for better or for worse. From the Hardcover edition.

Deathworld

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government’s desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans…
Deathworld! Deathworld is one of the classics of the Golden Age of science fiction, born in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr.

Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer

On the planet Pyrrus, human colonists have fought a centuries-old war with the native life forms. These life forms adapt to human tactics and technology, evolving new species so rapidly that natives returning from even brief trips off planet must be carried in protective armor canisters from their ship to the safe buildings, where they will learn of the latest deadly threats. ‘The Ethical Engineer’ is the second volume in the DEATHWORLD series. It was originally published as a two-part serial in ANALOG magazine in 1963.

West of Eden

‘An exciting adventure into a ?what if world. A brilliant work of creative imagination, one that rivals in conception, scope, and execution of plot Jean Auel’s bestselling novels.’ ?The Nashville Banner Sixty five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life? In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival. Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans leader…
and the dinosaurs greatest enemy. Rivalling Frank Herbert s Dune in the majesty of its scope and conception, West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope. Rivalling Frank Herbert s Dune in the majesty of its scope and conception, West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope.

Winter in Eden

Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants challenged humans for mastery of Earth, where a young hunter named Kerrick grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. Now, the awesome saga continues in Winter in Eden
A new ice age threatens Earth. Facing extinction, the dinosaurs must employ their mastery of biology to swiftly reconquer human territory. Desperately, Kerrick launches an arduous quest to rally a final defense for humankind. With his beloved wife and young son, he heads north to the land of the whale hunters, east into the enemy’s stronghold, and south to a fateful reckoning with destiny. Not since Dune has there been a work of such majestic scope and conception a monumental epic of passion, courage, and triumph.

Return to Eden

In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the Yilan , challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. Now, in Return to Eden, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion. After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilan , they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive? And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vaint , his implacable Yilan enemy. She’s been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last? For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her instincts an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him…
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Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation

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The Hammer and the Cross

865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests. Shef, the bast*ard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom and launch an all out war between…
. The Hammer and the Cross.

One King’s Way

A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies. Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring Shef down, no matter what the cost. To defeat Shef, they will go to extraordinary lengths to find the sacred spear of Christ and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire. Driven by dreams, Shef battles to change the course of history, but even the gods themselves may be plotting against him…
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King and Emperor (With: John Holm)

Driven by prophetic dreams, the Viking warrior Shef as become the One King, the undisputed ruler of the North. Now he must face the reborn power of the Holy Roman Empire. Rome threatens Shef’s fearsome Viking navy with a new invention of unparalleled destruction: Greek fire. Unable to defend his fleet against this awesome weapon, Shef travels East in search of new wisdom. His quest leads him to the lavish court of the Muslim Caliph and, ultimately, to the secret hiding place of the Holy Grail.

Make Room! Make Room!

The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and if they re lucky the odd starving rat. In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone . Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.

Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

A metal highway under the sea is no longer a dream. Captain Augustine Washington and his team of navvies are already driving the tunnel under the Atlantic in an heroic feat of construction. For Gus, a descendant of the infamous George Washington, executed as a traitor after the Battle of Lexington, this is the opportunity to redeem the family name. But his beautiful fiancee has been forced to end their engagement, and there is a ruthless and sinister plot to destroy the tunnel and Gus himself…

Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers

The wild, galaxy hopping adventures of brash young scientists Jerry Courtenay and Chuck van Chider are at the core of this classic space opera. When the two college students develop a faster than light space drive in their homemade workshed, they decide to sneak it aboard their football team’s airplane as a prank. The boyish plan backfires, however, and the boys find themselves, along with their crush Sally and the seemingly loveable school caretaker, Old John, hurtling through the solar system towards Titan an icy moon of Saturn inhabited by hideous ice creatures. Titan and the 20th century are only square one as the foursome becomes embroiled in a vast, intergalactic, century jumping battle.

A Rebel in Time

Can history be changed? Can the south still win the War Between the States? Colonel McColloch thinks so…
and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help him prove it. Sargeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not…
and only his readiness, ingenuity, and wit stand behind him to help him stop it. In the corridors of contemporary Washington and on the fields where Civil War battles have yet to be fought, these two men take each other on and the winner will determine the course of history…
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The Turing Option (With: Marvin Minsky)

After gunman storm his high security laboratory and put a bullet in his head, Brian Delaney reconstructs himself with the nerve reprogramming techniques that he invented and sets out to regain the scientific knowledge he has lost. NYT. K.

The Misplaced Battleship

from the introductory:

‘It might seem a little careless to lose
track of something as big as a battleship…

but interstellar space is on a different scale
of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship
in the wrong hands!
can be most dangerous.’

WHEN it comes to picking locks and cracking safes I admit to no master. The door to Inskipp’s private quarters had an old fashioned tumbler drum that was easier to pick than my teeth. I must have gone through that door without breaking step. Quiet as I was though, Inskipp still heard me. The light came on and there he was sitting up in bed pointing a . 75 caliber recoilless at my sternum.

‘You should have more brains than that, diGriz,’ he snarled. ‘Creeping into my room at night! You could have been shot.’

‘No I couldn’t,’ I told him, as he stowed the cannon back under his pillow. ‘A man with a curiosity bump as big as yours will always talk first and shoot later. And besides none of this pus*syfooting around in the dark would be necessary if your screen was open and I could have got a call through.’

Inskipp yawned and poured himself a glass of water from the dispenser unit above the bed. ‘Just because I head the Special Corps, doesn’t mean that I am the Special Corps,’ he said moistly while he drained the glass. ‘I have to sleep sometime. My screen is open only for emergency calls, not for every agent who needs his hand held.’

‘Meaning I am in the hand holding category?’ I asked with as much sweetness as I could.

‘Put yourself in any category you please,’ he grumbled as he slumped down in the bed. ‘And also put yourself out into the hall and see me tomorrow during working hours.’

He was at my mercy, really. He wanted sleep so much. And he was going to be wide awake so very soon.

‘Do you know what this is?’ I asked him, poking a large glossy pic under his long broken nose. One eye opened slowly.

‘Big warship of some kind, looks like Empire lines. Now for the last time go away!’ he said.

‘A very good guess for this late at night,’ I told him cheerily. ‘It is a late Empire battleship of the Warlord class. Undoubtedly one of the most truly efficient engines of destruction ever manufactured. Over a half mile of defensive screens and armament, that could probably turn any fleet existent today into fine radioactive ash ‘

‘Except for the fact that the last one was broken up for scrap over a thousand years ago,’ he mumbled.

I leaned over and put my lips close to his ear. So there would be no chance of misunderstanding. Speaking softly, but clearly.

‘True, true,’ I said. ‘But wouldn’t you be just a little bit interested if I was to tell you that one is being built today?’

Oh, it was beautiful to watch. The covers went one way and Inskipp went the other. In a single unfolding, in concerted motion he left the horizontal and recumbent and stood tensely vertical against the wall. Examining the pic of the battleship under the light. He apparently did not believe in pajama bottoms and it hurt me to see the goose bumps rising on those thin shanks. But if the legs were thin, the voice was more than full enough to make up for the difference.

The K-Factor

from the introductory: ‘Speed never hurt anybody it’s the sudden stop at the end. It’s not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it’s changing…
.’ WE’RE losing a planet, Neel. I’m afraid that I can’t…
understand it.’ The bald and wrinkled head wobbled a bit on the thin neck, and his eyes were moist. Abravanel was a very old man. Looking at him, Neel realized for the first time just how old and close to death he was. It was a profoundly shocking thought. ‘Pardon me, sir,’ Neel broke in, ‘but is it possible? To lose a planet, I mean. If the readings are done correctly, and the k factor equations worked to the tenth decimal place, then it’s really just a matter of adjustment, making the indicated corrections. After all, Societics is an exact science ‘ ‘Exact? Exact! Of course it’s not! Have I taught you so little that you dare say that to me?’ Anger animated the old man, driving the shadow of death back a step or two. Neel hesitated, feeling his hands quiver ever so slightly, groping for the right words. Societics was his faith, and his teacher, Abravanel, its only prophet. This man before him, carefully preserved by the age re*tarding drugs, was unique in the galaxy. A living anachronism, a refugee from the history books. Abravanel had singlehandedly worked out the equations, spelled out his science of Societics. Then he had trained seven generations of students in its fundamentals. Hearing the article of his faith defamed by its creator produced a negative feedback loop in Neel so strong his hands vibrated in tune with it. It took a jarring effort to crack out of the cycle. ‘The laws that control Societics, as postulated by…
you, are as exact as any others in the unified field theory universe.’ ‘No they’re not. And, if any man I taught believes that nonsense, I’m retiring tomorrow and dropping dead the day after. My science and it is really not logical to call it a science is based on observation, experimentation, control groups and corrected observations. And though we have made observations in the millions, we are dealing in units in the billions, and the interactions of these units are multiples of that. And let us never forget that our units are people who, when they operate as individuals, do so in a completely different manner. So you cannot truthfully call my theories exact. They fit the facts well enough and produce results in practice, that has been empirically proven. So far. Some day, I am sure, we will run across a culture that doesn’t fit my rules. At that time the rules will have to be revised. We may have that situation now on Himmel. There’s trouble cooking there.’ ‘They have always had a high activity count, sir,’ Neel put in hopefully.

50 in 50

Fifty stories for fifty years!A collection and celebration of the work of Harry HarrisonFrom his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world’s creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss ‘one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new epoch.’On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary as a professional writer, Harrison has gathered together fifty of his best stories one for each year along with substantial notes and introductory material. 50 in 50 is at once a memoir, a compendium of an engaging body of work, and a look at the history of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century.

Toy Shop and Two Others

This volume collects three short stories by Harry Harrison: ‘Toy Shop,’ ‘The Repairman,’ and ‘The K Factor.’

Nebula Awards 2 (With: Brian W. Aldiss)

These stories, first published in 1966, represent an exciting and important time in the history of science fiction the era when SF became true literature. Editors for this volume are BRIAN W. ALDISS and HARRY HARRISON. ALDISS is a prolific award winning author of over two dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, several critical works, and poetry. His latest novels are THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE: OR MY LIFE AS AN ENGLISHMAN and SUPERTOYS. The multiple award winning author of dozens of novels of speculative fiction, HARRISON is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! the basis for the film SOYLENT GREEN, and the alternate history novels STARS & STRIPES FOREVER and STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL. He lives in Ireland. The Secret Place by Richard McKenna ‘ A sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in the pulp years…
‘ Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The memorable classic featuring ‘slow glass’ through which light takes a very long time to travel. Who Needs Insurance? by Robin S. Scott If one can be accident prone, then perhaps one can be ‘safety prone’ but why? Among the Hairy Earthmen by R.A. Lafferty Earth is nothing more than a bloody playground for the children of the gods. The Last Castle by Jack Vance A prime example of one of Vance’s ‘haunting mood possessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response.’ Day Million by Frederik Pohl A very short story ‘jewel like conciseness’ of future love, life, and romance. When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman ‘ A sense of strangeness, more than a bit of human warmth, as well as a good strong whiff of alien strangeness.’ Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Earth proves to be a testing ground for the son of an emperor of a hundred worlds. In the Imagicon by George Henry Smith ‘What good was paradise without something to compare it to? Without a taste of hell from time to time, how could a man appreciate heaven?’ We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Now better know as the story on which film Total Recall was based, the original is a far more subtle questioning of reality. Man In His Time by Brian W. Aldiss The sole survivor of crash landing on Mars returns to Earth, but is 3. 3077 minutes ahead of the rest of the world.

Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own often highly idiosyncratic excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Excellent in all departments Kirkus Reviews, Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best of the year anthologies.

Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent)

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best of year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, ‘essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction.’

Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress)

A perfect match the all time top Nebula Award winner edits this year’s volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year’s Nebula winning fiction, top selections from the ballot including work not collected in other best of the year anthologies and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year’s volume, ‘a must read for both serious and casual SF fans alike.’

Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction: the finest works in the genre each year as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is a thought provoking and entertaining volume of and about science fiction. Editor Gregory Benford speaks of the interaction between science fiction and science over the past century; editors and authors Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, George Zebrowski, David Hartwell, and Bill Warren discuss and disagree about science fiction’s place in the larger literary scene; authors William Tenn and Hal Clement are honored; and award winning stories are presented by Sheila Finch, Jane Yolen, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Haldeman an excerpt from his novel Forever Peace, Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry.

Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson)

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award winning fiction of the year and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction. ‘Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.’ New York Review of Science Fiction

Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman)

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year’s most astounding fiction compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americar bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year’s most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year’s winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman)

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow)

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: The pulse of modern science fiction. New York Times Book Review

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year s award winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett)

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year’s compilation includes stories by: Ursula K. LeGuin Catherine Asaro John Kessel Nina Kiriki Hoffman Harry Harrison, this year’s Grandmaster

Tales from the Planet Earth

A collection of science fiction stories revolves around the theme of human and alien co existing in one body. 1986 New York: St. Martin’s Press, hardcover Collaborative novel with nineteen contributors, including Pohl, Hull, Spider Robinson, Somtow Sucharitkul, Harry Harrison, Brian W. Aldiss, A. Bertram Chandler, Joseph Nesvadba, and others.

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