The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

This audio book had some ups and downs.

The first few chapters where an absolute drag, practically made me fall asleep while driving. However, once the time travel started it got much better. They toung-and-cheek went on and on about how time travel doesn't make any sense, and I appreciated that.

My favorite part was when Jim returned to Dirt (later learning the actual name was Earth) 1975 and he learned to speak English from a kidnapped biker so his phrasing and stuff was all wrong. Pretty good stuff.

Just when we though all was lost, ta-da Angelina shows up and saves the day, but since it was written in the 70s the man gets all the credit.

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Slippery Jim DiGriz is back. Back in time, that is. The evil villain who calls himself “He” has been using time travel to try to rid the world of the Special Corp (including Jim and Angelina) by eliminating them before they were even born. As his world is quickly fading in front of his eyes, Jim jumps back to a planet called “Dirt” (that’s Earth) in their year 1975 so he can kill He before He can work His evil plan. Before the adventure is over, Jim ends up fighting He-possessed Napoleon Bonaparte who has occupied London (the history is a little different in He’s time warp).

Don’t worry about the mind-boggling impossibilities and plot holes here — just go along for the ride and, if show more you can, do it in audio. I don’t know how the Stainless Steel Rat books come across in print, but in audio format, with their quick pace (less than 5 hours) and Phil Gigante’s wonderful voices, they’re immensely entertaining. In this installment, Mr. Gigante gets to show off a few more of his brilliant accents. This time it’s British, French, and Gangsta. Even when the plot gets a little slow for a few minutes, Gigante carries it along with his fabulous narration. show less

While this is not my favourite Stainless Steel Rat book (that is still The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You) , I enjoyed the way time travel was dealt with in this book, and I loved the depiction of Earth, 1984, and how casually Jimmy di Griz deals with security systems then. I'd also love it if memorygrams were real.

If I enjoyed the 1984 parts then there are no words for how much I enjoyed the Napoleonic bits. While I like the alternate reality idea, I love the way it's played out, the reasonable and rampant paranoia of the English and how they're good guys but still veneal.

I think the Count and his artillery master were my favourite characters, although the Martians and Angelina came close. Professor Coypu is such a fantastic mad show more professor that it's hard not to like him.

Jimmy di Griz is his usual dry and laconic self, if not quite as much fun as he is in 'Stainless Steel Rat Wants You'.

I enjoyed this a lot. show less

I thought this was quite weak -- certainly the weakest Stainless Steel Rat book. It was ok, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who hasn't read any of the others first. Frankly the time travel premise is hard to believe, and the resolution at the end of the story is a total non-resolution.

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Dette er tæt på at være manuskriptet til en Bond film. Angelina bliver bortført, men reddet fra skattevæsenets kløer. En tidssløjfe visker hende og specialkorpset ud. Det skyldes den onde og sindsyge superskurk He. Heldigvis har professor Coypu (Q) opfundet en sær dims, der laver backup og restore af James di Griz hukommelse hver 3 millisekunder, hvilket åbenbart virker mod tidssløjfer. James sendes nu tilbage til år 1975 og derfra til 1807, hvor He har importeret rekylfri kanoner til Napoleon og James lander derfor i et fransk besat London. "Casket vooleyfoo?" og "Mayerd" er blandt de franske vendinger han hører der. Sluttelig dukker Angelina op og det endelige opgør kan stå i år 21807 show more eller deromkring.
I 1975 lander han tæt ved et par banditter på motorcykel og kidnapper en af dem for at bruge ham til at lære sproget og stedlige skikke, som fx bankrøveri og "intoinal-combustion" motorer.

Dette er virkelig Harry Harrison i topform show less