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This seventh novel in Harry Harrisons Stainless Steel Rat series is actually the sequel to the prequel A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born.
Young Jim DiGriz is alone, back in prison, and out for revenge, After he escapes and is tracking his nemesis, he gets captured and drafted into the military,

At this point, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Draftedturns into antimilitary propaganda that doesnt even try to be circumspect.
The army are the bad guys all bloodhungry idiots and theyre preying on a planet who practices Individual Mutualism, an antiworkethic cooperative utopian philosophy that could never stand up to human nature.
While the Stainless Steel Rat books are definitely meant to be fun, these types of themes come up often enough that I cant help but think of them as “agendas,” and this particular antimilitary agenda is likely to be perceived as insulting and disrespectful to the brave men and women all over the world who risk their lives to protect their countries.


Unfortunately, even if you manage to overlook the agenda, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted offers little new entertainment for fans whove seen most of Jims antics before.
If you havent read any of the Stainless Steel Rat books, youre likely to be more forgiving than I am, and this book is a fine place to start it will actually help if you havent read most of the previous books.


The redeeming factor for the audiobook version of A Stainless Steel Rat is born is Phil Gigantes narration thats entertaining in itself.
Im not giving up on The Stainless Steel Rat, but I hope the next book will offer more creative entertainment and less ridiculous political philosophy.
Jim's still in a bit of a pickle after the end of the previous adventure, not to mention still looking to get the guy that killed his mentor which is a nice touch, as it saves time in setting up a new story and allows us to just drop right in for a change, into new trouble and new adventure.
It's got a lot more than that going for it, too: some good laughs bright and dark alike, bleakness and tension, most likely the single most psychopathic villain in the series so far, some of the best and most likeable pacifists I've ever seen anywhere, good and slightly fleshedout characters in general, and even a solid life lesson or two.
Even the writing's gotten better, I think, and Harry has almost entirely phased out the almost incessant cliffhanger chapter breaks from the previous volumes! One was growing tired of them.


Overall, it's my favourite of the series so far by quite a far margin enough for the first fivestarer, or at least fourandahalf.
The Stainless Steel Rat series is definitely an iconic one in the scifi communityit played with the idea of the charismatic criminal in that genre.
It seems to me that Harrisons SSR proved that science fiction didnt need to just be space ships and rayguns, it could also involve elements of the thriller and of comedy.
In some ways, Jim diGriz reminds me of a more competent, less upstanding version of Maxwell Smart of the Get Smart TV show in the way he bumps along from problem to problem.


These books are light and fluffy, They are great when you need an easy read that will make you smile, As a female reader, you will have to put up with a certain amount of sexism, but at least to my mind it is sexism light.
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this point in the SSR franchise, the ideas are quite tired and well worn, This volume is another prequel, dealing with Jims early life, but the ideas are basically the sameJim must think his way out of various scrapes and problems quickly and often in extremely unlikely ways.


The basis of this book is making fun of the military, a rather easy target in many ways.
Everyone “knows” that the food is awful, that recruits are worked to exhaustion and yelled at, and that the older men at the top stay safely behind while they send the younger men into battle.
Harrison pokes fun at all of these ideas,

If you have found the previous books to be entertaining, you will probably enjoy this one too.
If you were bored or disappointed by the previous volume, I would suggest quitting while you are ahead, These books are not getting better and might be arguably considered of lesser quality than the earliest ones,

Bookof my science fiction amp fantasy project,
This is the good old days of the Stainless Steel Rat, Kai Galaktikoje kyla tarpžvaigždinis karas, tuomet prireikia ypatingo žmogaus Džeimso Bolivaro diGrizo, Plieninės Žiurkės.
The book is an easy and entertaining read, Akin to Catchit tries to show the issues of presentday army, However, it does not try hard to do that, Instead, the author recalls there is a story line to tell and proceeds with that,
Although the story features a lot of action, I wouldn't call it an interesting or intriguing one, Even though there some unexpected events, it is safe to assume the protagonist will always come on top no matter what.
Even when you think that situation is hopeless, there is deus ex machina for the rescue, Opens well enough, and a few daring escapes later, our hero ends up drafted, After that, it becomes clumsy antiarmy kind of stuff, The antagonist is a paperthin caricature, Few daring escapes, little cleverness, one great character Mark, There is one more sequel to this, prequel to the original book, and I am hoping for better, Still a fun, if somewhat brainless read after all these years, The audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante is quite good, Classic Stainless Steel Rat. Written about halfway through Harrison's series, this book is set relatively early he's still in his teens in Slippery Jim DiGriz's career as an intergalactic thief and conman.
As with the rest of the series the writing style is very tongue in cheek, the plots larger than life, and most of the other characters pretty simplistic good or bad, which is what makes DiGriz stand out in the far future utopias or dystopias that he finds himself in.
This particular installment pokes fun at the army as the SSR has to infiltrate and subvert a militarized nation bent on conquest.
Genre: scifi, clever capers
Summary: Jim diGriz is out for revenge, going after the man that killed his mentor, the Bishop.
Only, this man is a bigwig in a secret military machine, Adventures and scrapes abound.
Response: There was quite a bit of commentary about militarism and life in the military in general, I have a sneaking suspicion that the author has less than favorable views towards the military, It makes for an interesting read, especially when viewed within our context here and now, Jim also comes across a paradisaical world with an interesting political philosophy, It would have been enough to leave Jim there, happy and contented but then that would be the end of his story and seeing as there are, like, ten more books in the series, it obviously isn't the end.
I enjoyed the plotline, however unbelievable it got at points, diGriz is a fascinating character, Like I said before, he isn't perfect but he is introspective and a character which I admire, Another fun SSR prequel, with Slippery Jim ricocheting from one troublesome situation to another in style, If you love space opera and found Han Solo to be much more entertaining than Luke Skywalker, the Stainless Steel Rat books could well be right up your street.
I definitely read it before, just forgot, My rating is for "individual mutualism", which's similar to more indepth sitelinkHominids world, but also even more advanced a society without army or police, probably how it should be, because funding those institutions is just the pure waste of money and effort.
If instead of crashing heads of each other for thousands of years over idiotic ideas, like whose god is greatest, they invested time into real things, today we would probably wouldn't had borders, and as a consequence no need in "armies" or arm's race.
From my experience, even possibility of such vision for majority is ridiculous, Fcking idiots.

Similarities with Hominids: car for a ride, lowrise buildings, "aggression gene" screening, Well, pretty much a lot of the same for our intrepid hero, Stuck on a planet, getting into trouble and finding ridiculously inventive read: deus ex machina ways of escaping trouble.


There isn't much to say on this book, there is nothing really new in comparison to his previous and the next book.
So I am thinking that I might have a bit of break before the next one, To be honest, I use these when I have flights as they are small and light and good for take off and landing.
Ths begins almost immediately after the close of the last book, This is a very rare occurrence in the life of the Rat, And while it does add to the immediacy of the story it does make the reader want to compare the two adventures more than they might normally.
Which is a shame because this is probably the weakest of the Rat's adventures so far: it's a good fun read, but it covers no new ground, feels like a rerun of capers past and has possibly the clunkier exposition in a series that relies on exposition as part of its tropes and formulae.


Put simply, it's a bit of a dud, An entertaining dud but it contradicts a few points of continuity the idea of interplanetary invasion being expensive and pointless, for one the continuing references to Earth/ Dirt, although that ship sailed very early on in the series, to be honest and the entirety of the plot of The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge seems to be cribbed here, if I'm honest but we do get a deepening of Jim's personal philosophy as well as a few glimpses into his life that we hadn't had before, so it's worth it for bridging the gap between the callow youth we met in the previous book and the seasoned criminal we meet in the actual first novel of the series.


Jim's capers are still one of the best ways to waste your time, though, even with a subpar entry in the series.
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