Harry Harrison

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  • Bibliography:
    92 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1960
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Bill, the Galactic Hero

1 - The Planet of the Robot Slaves (Aug-1989)
3 - On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (Jan-1991)
Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965)
On the Planet of Bottled Brains (May-1990)
On the Planet of Zombie Vampires (Mar-1991)
On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (Sep-1991)
The Final Incoherent Adventure! (Sep-1992)
Galactic Dreams (Apr-1994)

The Deathworld Trilogy

1 - Deathworld (Apr-1987)
2 - Deathworld 2 (Jun-1987)
3 - Deathworld 3 (Sep-1987)

Hammer and the Cross

1 - The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
2 - One King's Way (Apr-1995)
3 - King and Emperor (Jun-1997)

Stainless Steel Rat

Stainless Steel Rat (Jan-1970)
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (Dec-1970)
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (Dec-1972)
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (Aug-1979)
The Stainless Steel Rat for President (Nov-1982)
Stanless Steel Rat Wants You (1985)
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (Oct-1985)
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (Oct-1987)
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (Jun-1988)
Stainless Steel Visions (Feb-1994)
The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (Feb-1995)
Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (Oct-1996)
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (Oct-1996)
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (Oct-1999)
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (Aug-2010)

Stars & Stripes

Stars & Stripes Forever (Oct-1998)
Stars & Stripes In Peril (Nov-2000)
Stars and Stripes Triumphant (Dec-2002)

To the Stars

1 - Homeworld (Nov-1980)
2 - Wheelworld (Oct-1981)
3 - Starworld (Sep-1984)

West of Eden

1 - West of Eden (Jul-1984)
2 - Winter in Eden (Nov-1986)
3 - Return to Eden (Aug-1988)

Book List in Order: 92 titles

  • The Stainless Steel Rat in the Missing Battleship

    Slippery Jim diGriz--a.k.a. The Stainless Steel Rat--is back in this classic adventure, originally published in the April, 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ......

  • The K-Factor

    This is a classic science fiction short story by Harry Harrison. The K-Factor is an equation used to asses the probability of war. A young man is charged with using the K-Factor and the field of Sociatics to avert war on another planet. However, ther...

  • Bill, the Galactic Hero

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    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 thi...

  • Make Room! Make Room!

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    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 ...

  • Stainless Steel Rat

    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. I...

  • Spaceship Medic

    • / Science Fiction
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    'We are all dead men,' said First Engineer Holtz when the space ship Johannes Kepler was hit by a meteorite. But Lieutenant Donald Chase refused to give in to the general spirit of despair. Something could be done and somehow they would reach Mars sa...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

    Stainless Steel Rat

    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 o...

  • Tunnel Through the Deep

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  • Stonehenge

    Three brave warriors--a prince from an ancient house, a former envoy of the Pharaoh, and the daughter of the Albi--struggle against an empire to establish a new world order around the monument at Stonehenge...



  • The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

    Stainless Steel Rat

    The villainous He has travelled back in time to mankind's distant past on the legendary planet Earth (or 'Dirt') of 1984, where he is altering events so that people who opposed him in the Rat's present cease to exist, Angelina amongst them. Using the...

  • Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers

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    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 dec...

  • The Mothballed Spaceship

    in Astounding
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  • Tunnel Through the Deeps

  • The California Iceberg

  • Great Balls of Fire

  • Daleth Effect

  • The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T.

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

    Stainless Steel Rat

    Creatures from an unknown star are closing in on mankind and Slippery Jim deGriz, your favorite con man turned secret agent, must save the galaxy from a horrible doom!...

  • Homeworld

    To the Stars - 1

    Jan Kulozik was one of Earth's privileged elite. A brilliant young electronics engineer, he enjoyed all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization that survived global collapse and conquered the stars, unaware of the millions who slaved or starved ...



  • Planet of No Return

    In the sequel to Planet of the Damned, Brion Brandd, the winner of a planet-wide competition, must battle mindless killer robots and then conquer and lead back to civilization a world of savages. Reissue....

  • Lifeship

  • Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah

    THE GREATEST ENGINEERING FEAT IN THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE! ...and of course the rest of the world as well. Over 4,000 miles in length, intended to sustain a pressure of 1,000 atmospheres while accommodating cargo and passengers traveling ...

  • Wheelworld

    To the Stars - 2

    TOO DANGEROUS TO LIVE. TOO VALUABLE TO KILL. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of pe...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat for President

    Stainless Steel Rat

    "

    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 ...

  • Invasion: Earth

    A space ship crash lands in New York City and the strange creature on board warns of a coming attack on Earth by the warships of a savage alien race....

  • Deathworld Trilogy

    A legendary science fiction story, this trilogy, brought back into print in one single volume, presents hero Jason dinAlt as he discovers three separate planets. dinAlt finds excitement and intrigue as he investigates Pyrrus, a strange place where al...

  • West of Eden

    West of Eden - 1

    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 survi...

  • Starworld

    To the Stars - 3

    The return of the rebel

    The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of r...

  • Captive Universe



  • Stanless Steel Rat Wants You

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    Stainless Steel Rat

  • One Step from Earth

    What if we could transfer objects, even people, across the galaxy in the blink of an eye?What hidden secrets would it reveal? What deadly dangers would it conceal?Will any part of human life be the same when the vastness of the Universe lies only ONE...

  • A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Stainless Steel Rat

    In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery and counter-espionage, one name towers above all the rest--"Slippery Jim" diGriz, the fabled outlaw known and feared as The Stainless Steel Rat! Now, the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most ...

  • Skyfall

    Prometheus is the largest spacecraft ever built by man. A joint USA-USSR project, the gigantic ship weighs over 20,000 tons--and may be the ultimate solution to the world's energy needs. Like its mythical namesake, who stole fire from the gods and g...

  • Invasion

  • Winter in Eden

    West of Eden - 2

    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 descendents challenged humans for mastery o...

  • The Jupiter Plague

    Unexpectedly, the long-lost first manned Jupiter probe has returned--but only a madman would have tried to land it at Kennedy International!The result is the biggest air disaster in history. And that's only the beginning: now comes THE JUPITER PLAGUE...

  • Deathworld

    The Deathworld Trilogy - 1

    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 tur...

  • Deathworld 2

    The Deathworld Trilogy - 2

    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 ...

  • Deathworld 3

    The Deathworld Trilogy - 3

    The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason knew this. But he also knew the planet on which he l...



  • Montezuma's Revenge

    "

    When the voice of authority calls, Tony Hawkin assumes there is a glitch. After all, why would the nation possibly require the services of a man who runs the gift shop in the FBI building? But there''s no mistake, and soon Tony finds himself in t...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

    Stainless Steel Rat

    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 gal...

  • Queen Victoria's Revenge

    "Hawkins, there's two million in there...". Tony Hawkins wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an ...

  • You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat

    Stainless Steel Rat

  • Return to Eden

    West of Eden - 3

    In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project to date. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the ...

  • A Rebel in Time

    Colonel McCulloch believes that history can be changed and that the South can still win the War Between the States, and with gold, an automatic weapon, and some top-secret blueprints, he goes back in time to reverse the outcome of the Civil War. Reis...

  • The Planet of the Robot Slaves

    Bill, the Galactic Hero - 1

    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 fin...

  • On the Planet of Bottled Brains

    Bill, the Galactic Hero

    He's the perfect starship trooper: big, strong, and not too bright. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (it's one of the body parts that's still his own). Tsuris, the Mystery Planet, has a mysterious secret weapon...

  • On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure

    Bill, the Galactic Hero - 3

    He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong, and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own). Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping fo...

  • On the Planet of Zombie Vampires

    Bill, the Galactic Hero

    Bill—the perfect Starship Trooper: big, brawny, and brainwashed. Possessor of two right arms (impressive when it comes to saluting) and a foot that is threatening to turn into something more suited to being an umbrella stand than anything th...



  • The Technicolor Time Machine

    Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color--in 1050 A.D.?Join the film crew of that stupendous motion picture saga VIKING COLUMBUS as they journey back i...

  • On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars

    Bill, the Galactic Hero

    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 pl...

  • There Won't Be War

  • The Final Incoherent Adventure!

    Bill, the Galactic Hero

    Recruited by Captain Kadaffi (a.k.a., Captain Cadaver) for a suicide mission to the planet Eyerack, Bill, a big, strong, and completely brainwashed galactic hero must complete the mission or die trying. Original....

  • The Hammer and the Cross

    Hammer and the Cross - 1

    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 bastard son of a Norse raider a...

  • The Qe2 Is Missing

    In the tradition of Raise the Titanic, a startling thriller by bestselling author Harry Harrison. When the world's most luxurious liner is found floating off Peru, the crew and the 2,000 passengers have disappeared. Mysterious circular marks have bee...

  • Planet of the Damned

    Brion Brandd has just become the champion of his planet by defeating all the other contestants in “The Twenties.” Many men train all their lives for a chance to be the winner and Brion is ready to savor his victory. But not so fast! When a former...

  • Stainless Steel Visions

    Stainless Steel Rat

  • Galactic Dreams

    Bill, the Galactic Hero

    Collected here are twelve of Harrison's best, including "Space Rats of the CCC," probably the greatest space opera ever written, slightly tongue-in-cheek; "At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein," in which our favorite monster gets new life -- but w...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

    Stainless Steel Rat

    Caught during a failed robbery, Slippery Jim diGriz 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...

  • One King's Way

    Hammer and the Cross - 2

    WHAT IF... THE VIKINGS CONQUERED BRITAIN -- AND THREATENED THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN WORLD? 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 ...

  • Warriors of the Way

  • Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

    Stainless Steel Rat

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell

    Stainless Steel Rat

    THE RAT IS BACK Slippery Jim diGriz, alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet. DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disa...

  • King and Emperor

    Hammer and the Cross - 3

    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 unpar...

  • Stars & Stripes Forever

    Stars & Stripes

    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 defus...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus

    Stainless Steel Rat

    For novel upon novel, Slippery Jim DiGriz -- the Stainless Steel Rat -- 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...

  • Stars & Stripes In Peril

    Stars & Stripes

    In 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 Tex...

  • 50 in 50

    Fifty stories for fifty years!

    A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison

    From 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 fiel...

  • Stars and Stripes Triumphant

    Stars & Stripes

    America and England: For the two countries that share a language and a heritage, the conflict began at the dawn of the American Civil War. Just as America was about to tear itself to pieces, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. pa...

  • Jerry Jerraldson by Henry Hutchinson

    Jerry Jerraldson By Henry Hutchinson is debut author, Harry Harrison’s topsy-turvy smack-in-the-face to the world of literary fiction. In this short novel, Harrison’s hilariously absurd, hauntingly insightful alter-ego, Henry Hutchinson (a misfit...

  • Toy Shop and Two Others

  • The Web of the Worlds

    “This must be another world altogether, separate from his own in time and space. He wasn't sure about the details―it had been a long time since he had read H. P. Lovecraft―but this theory seemed the most tenable.”Grant O'Reilly was not the ad...

  • Down to Earth and Other Stories

    From one of the best, Science Fiction Grand Master Harry Harrison, comes seven fantastic stories of space, aliens, war, and robots. And his stories always have the backbone of the human condition to support them.Includes the stories: DOWN TO EARTH, S...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

    Stainless Steel Rat

    After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF James Bolivar Slippery Jim DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet of Moo...

  • Navy Day

  • A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

    Over 4,000 miles in length, intended to sustain a pressure of 1,000 atmospheres while accommodating cargo and passengers traveling in excess of 1,000 miles per hour, the Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the Brit...

  • Robot Tales: Eleven Short Science Fiction Stories About Robots

    This is a collection of eleven short stories about robots that are compiled from various sources. The stories are: (1) Arm of the Law (How could a robot -- a machine, after all -- be involved in something like law application and violence?), (2) The ...

  • Seven Short Science Fiction Stories

    This is a collection of seven fantastic and short science fiction stories by Harry Harrison. The stories include: (1) The Misplaced Battleship (It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar spa...

  • Sense of Obligation

    It took a very special type of man for the job -- and the job was onerous, dangerous, and the only really probable reward was disaster. But when a man who says he knows it's going to kill him asks you to join.......

  • In Our Hands The Stars

    "In Our Hands the Stars" is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of "Deathworld", "Make Room! Make Room!" (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF....

  • Harry Harrison Anthology

    Illustrated with 10 unique illustrationsArm of the LawDeathworldThe Ethical EngineerThe K-FactorThe Misplaced BattleshipNavy DayPlanet of the DamnedThe RepairmanToy ShopThe Velvet Glove...

  • Arm of the Law

    At one time--this was before the Robot Restriction Laws--they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions. Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any i...

  • Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!

    The Harry Harrison Megapack collects 12 novels and stories by the author of the Stainless Steel Rat series, including the classics science fiction novels DEATHWORLD and PLANET OF THE DAMNED -- more than 700 pages of great reading! (Updated in 2016 to...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat and the Misplaced Battleship

    It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing Battl...

  • Flash Gordon Volume 7: The Death Planet

    Strap yourself in for another rip-roaring romp through the many worlds of Flash Gordon. From the icy cold surface of Pluto, to the Death Planet, to a dimension populated by living machines… These are the continuing adventures of Flash Gordon, scien...

  • The Ethical Engineer

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                                                                                               THE SECOND DEATHWORLD NOVEL

    Deathworld is the name of a seri...

  • The Misplaced Battleship

    • / Science Fiction
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    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. Still, a misplaced battleship -- in the wrong hands! -- can be most dangerous....

  • The Repairman

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    My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles.

    "This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspa...

  • The Repariman

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  • To the Stars

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Toy Shop

    • / Science Fiction
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    Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel "Biff" Hawton stood over six feet tall, he could see every detail of the demonstration. The children -- and most of the parents -- gaped in wide-eyed wonder. Biff Hawton was too sophisticated...

  • The Velvet Glove

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    SF writer and editor Harry Harrison explores a not-too-distant future where robots -- particularly specialist robots who don't know their place -- have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed -- but so what? New York...

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Harry Harrison has published 92 books.

Harry Harrison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flash Gordon Volume 7: The Death Planet, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat in the Missing Battleship, was published in April 1960.

Yes. Harry Harrison has 7 series.
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