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    A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
    A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
    A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
    Audiobook7 hours

    A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Written by Harry Harrison

    Narrated by Phil Gigante

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat, Slippery Jim is 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 12, 2011
    ISBN9781441881489
    A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
    Author

    Harry Harrison

    HARRY HARRISON (1925-2012) was the Hugo Award-nominated, Nebula Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Stainless Steel Rat, Deathworld, and West of Eden series, as well as Make Room! Make Room! which was turned into the cult classic movie, Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. In 2009 Harrison was awarded the Damon Knight SF Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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