Harry Harrison brought wit, adventure, and a wonderfully rebellious spirit to science fiction. Harry Harrison Short Stories collects ten entertaining tales filled with clever criminals, troublesome robots, dangerous missions, strange technology, and futures where almost anything can go wrong.
Meet Slippery Jim diGriz in The Stainless Steel Rat, the story that introduced Harrison’s legendary interstellar rogue, then join him again in The Misplaced Battleship, where an entire warship has mysteriously disappeared.
Robots take center stage in The Robot Who Wanted To Know, Arm of the Law, The Robots Strike, and The Velvet Glove, each exploring what happens when intelligent machines begin behaving in ways their creators never anticipated. The Repairman sends a specialist on an unusual assignment far from home, while Trainee for Mars looks toward humanity’s future beyond Earth. Welcoming Committee and Open All Doors, written with Hubert Pritchard, complete a collection packed with imagination and unexpected turns.
Harry Harrison (1925–2012) was one of science fiction’s most entertaining and distinctive voices. Best known for the Stainless Steel Rat series, Deathworld, and Make Room! Make Room!, Harrison combined fast-paced storytelling, satire, humor, and inventive ideas throughout a career spanning more than five decades.
Robots, rogues, distant worlds, and wonderfully unpredictable futures await in Harry Harrison Short Stories.
