STARWORLD

Granada paperback, 1988. Cover illustration by Peter Gudynas.

"STARWORLD EXPLODES WITH REVOLUTION 

The twilight planet of Halvmork is free. The Earth space fleet has left to guard Homeworld and to prepare for the ultimate, cataclysmic showdown. For a moment, the entire galaxy seems to hold its breath... 

For Jan Kulozik, exiled on Halvmork, this is the moment of decisions. Will he find himself a leader of a new society...or an eternal slave to the absolute power of Earth? 

Starworld completes the epic To The Stars trilogy with one of the most breathtaking space sequences yet seen in science fiction."

WHEELWORLD

Grafton / Panther SF paperback, 1988 reprint. Cover illustration by
Peter Gudynas.

"WHEELWORLD 

An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to rise and will not set for another four years; where an ancient peasant hierarchy still rules a society equipped with the highest technology; where the people are dependent on visiting ships as they are on the very air that they breathe; home for some, but for Jan Kulozik it is an eternal prison. 

And when the ships don't come, Jan finds himself at the centre of an epic struggle for power...and survival. 

Wheelworld is the second visionary volume in Harry Harrison's phenomental To the Stars trilogy."

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT'S REVENGE

Bantam paperback, 1988. Cover painting by Jim Burns.

GALACTIC GUERILLA RAT! 

It was totally impossible for Cliaand to wage interstellar war...but the crazy little planet was winning, whatever the odds. And there wasn't much the peaceful galaxy could do...except send Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Ray - to wage his own kind of guerilla campaign against the grey men of Cliaand and their leader, the indomitable Kraj. But then the Rat was aided by a band of liberated Amazons and his own beloved, murderous Angelina...and they had to swing the odds in his favour."

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT GETS DRAFTED

Bantam paperback, 1988. Cover painting by Jim Burns.

"When slippery Jim diGriz broke out so spectacularly from prison and found himself on the run on a planet so primitive it didn't even have the imagination to call itself anything except Planet (in the local lingo, of course), almost the last thing on his mind was joining the army. 

Thoughts of revenge on Captain Garth, the man responsible for his predicament, were uppermost. But one thing led to another and Captain Garth turned out to be General Zennor and General Zennor's defensive action was really a full-scale invasion. And somehow Jim seems to be the only thing standing between a small, defenceless planet and annihilation. 

Unfair odds, really - one Stainless Steel Rat against a merciless tyrant and his heavily armed troops. Zennor doesn't stand a chance..."

A STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN

Sphere SF paperback, 1988. Cover painting by Peter Elson.

"A RAT BY ANY OTHER NAME... 

Young Jim diGriz has but one ambition in life - to become a master criminal, perhaps the greatest that little Bit O'Heaven has ever seen. So that he can learn the ropes, he has to mix with the right people - or rather the wrong people. And for this kind of on-the-job training the best place to meet the worst villains is in prison. But even for a customer as slippery as Jim, getting behind bars isn't easy.  

So Jim does a bank job, very badly, with the avowed intention of getting himself nicked..."

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT FOR PRESIDENT

Sphere SF paperback, 1982. Cover artwork by Peter Elson.

"RAT IN PARADISE! 

You can't keep a good rat down, not one as slippery as Jim di Griz alias the Stainless Steel Ray. And you can't keep his nose out of trouble either. 

Jim and the lethal, luscious Angelina owe themselves a honeymoon and Paraiso-Aqui looks like the place. Settled long ago by voyagers from the southern continent of Earth (or Dirt as it was also known) Paraiso is warm and easy. But all is not well in paradise. The serpentine tyrant General Julio Zapilote is about to sail back into office in another rigged election, and the chance to scupper him is just too good for Jim to miss. Corruption, bribery, graft and chicanery - for the Ray it's just like coming home."

THE STAINLESS STEEL WANTS YOU

Sphere SF paperback, 1979. Cover artwork by Peter Elson.

"SAVE THE GALAXY FROM DESTRUCTION! 

Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - is still recovering from his efforts to save his beloved Angelina from the notorious Interstellar Internal and External Revenue when he is called upon to perform the impossible. Saving the galaxy. But can he pull it off? The galaxy is being attacked by every kind of alien race - untold billions of tentacled, slimy, green, clawed mutations - and time is running out. Aided and abetted by his wife Angelina and his teenage sons, James and Bolivar, Jim infiltrates the nerve centre of the enemy council chambers. But he hasn't reckoned on the grey men and their commitment to a 'holy crusade' to destroy mankind - permanently!"

BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO...ON THE PLANET OF BOTTLED BRAINS

VGSF / Gollancz paperback, 1991. Cover illustration by
Michael W. Kaluta and Steve Fastner.

"Bill should know that you never complain in the Troopers. But when his new foot looks like turning into something green, scaly and abundantly clawed, a visit to the medics would seem reasonable. But before he can say 'Quintiform computer error' he seems to have got himself volunteered again, this time for a suicide mission on Tsuris - the planet nobody ever comes back from. 

A number, exactly a billion in fact, of Tsurisians have no body to speak of, and reside in bottles, which as Bill remarks, is an awful lot of bottles. And Bill is going to need all the bottle he possesses to get himself out of this one... 

If you want to bravely probe where no one has ever probed before, then join Bill, Splock and Captain Dirk as once again our Galactic Hero investigates new depths in the realms of the science fiction cliche."

PLANET OF THE DAMNED

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover artwork by Alan Craddock.

"DIS! 

was a planet, a wasteland, a world of death where living was dying and dying was better than living. 

DIS! 

was a scorching desert, its people crude, barbaric, backward and miserable - and they would become seven million blackened corpses unless Ihjel stopped the H-bombs. But Ihjel had foreseen his sudden death, and only one man could take his place - Brion Brandd, Champion of Champions and master of a secret power..."

STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS

Orbit paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover art by Alan Craddock.

"INTER-GALACTIC MAYHEM 

Chuck and Jerry, two fun-loving students at an American College, discover a faster-than-light space drive and smuggle it into the football team's plane. They, together with the lovely Sally Goodfellow, crusty Pop and loveable old John view with horror a practical joke gone awry as the plane screams off to Titan, a frozen moon of Saturn. But that's only the beginning. When loveable old John's true and awful identity becomes known, a wild battle across the Universe and through centuries ensues, catapulting friends and deadly foes into the midst of a yarn spun from the grandest tradition of the classic 'Space Opera'."

HOMEWORLD

Granada SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by Peter Gudynas.

"HOMEWORLD IS HEAVEN ON EARTH 

IF YOU DON'T ASK QUESTIONS... 

Homeworld is stable at last, hundreds of years after the collapse of the 20th Century economy. For the millions of proles, life is still a grim ordeal, but for the lucky few, like Engineer Jan Kulozik, there is every kind of luxury. Except one. On Homeworld, where everything and everyone is monitored by the faceless power of government, there is no freedom. 

Jan Kulozik knew nothing of the Resistance; he probably didn't want to. But suddenly, he is part of it. And running for his life... 

The first volume in Harry Harrison's epic To the Stars trilogy, Homeworld is one of the most stark and compelling visions of the future since 1984."

PLANET OF NO RETURN

Sphere SF paperback, 1983. Cover painting by Peter Elson.

"MACHINES THAT MURDER! 

Landing on a new planet is a danger every time, and Selm-II is no exception. 

The specialist didn't like it. There were no cities visible from space, no broadcasts or transmissions on the blank airwaves - yet the wrecked war machines of an advance technology littered the rich pastures of the deserted planet. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of crumpled and gigantic weapons of war, a graveyard of destruction stretching almost to the lifeless horizon. But the war wasn't over...and they weren't all wrecks! 

It's an emergency. It's a job for Brian Brand, the mightiest weightlifter in the galaxy. With he brilliant, sensuous Dr Lea Morees at his side he plunges into the war zone, into the steel jaws of the PLANET OF NO RETURN!"

TECHNICOLOR TIME MACHINE

Orbit paperback, 1984. Cover art by Alan Craddock
 (thanks: Staz Johnson)

"L M Greenspan, the head of ailing Climactic Studios, gave producer Barney Hendrickson, five days to get a major movie in the can - and Climactic out of it. 

Impossible? 

Not with Professor Hewett's miraculous presto chango time machine, the answer to a Hollywood producer's prayer. 

Nipping back to AD 1,000 with a whole film crew and two glam stars, Barney sets out to prove that the Vikings discovered America five hundred years before Columbus - and to film the event in glorious technicolor. But it's not as easy as it sounds, as they realise when history lets them down and their Viking Columbus fails to show up in the new world..."

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT

Sphere SF paperback, 1974 reprint. Artwork by Eddie Jones.

"Meet Slippery Jim diGriz - cosmic criminal, the smoothest, sneakiest con-man in the known universe. He can take any bank in the galaxy, con a captain out of his ship, start a war to stop one - whichever pays the most.

So when the law finally catches up with the stainless steel ray, there is only one thing to do - make him a cop. And turn him loose on a villainous lady who is building herself a battleship."

TWO TALES AND EIGHT TOMORROWS

Bantam paperback, May 1968. Cover artist uncredited.

"A LEAP INTO FREE SPACE - WHERE DOWN IS UP AND THE ONLY CERTAINTY IS THE UNEXPECTED!  

Alien beings, bizarre customs, hostile environments ... Harry Harrison guides you through a series of startling excursions into new worlds and extra-ordinary experiences."

Contents:

The Streets Of Ashkelon
Portrait Of The Artist
Rescue Operation
Captain Bedlam
Final Encounter
Unto My Manifold Dooms
The Pliable Animal
Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N.
According To His Abilities
I Always Do What Teddy Says

PRIME NUMBER

Sphere Science Fiction paperback, 1983 reprint.
Cover painting by Peter Elson.

"A FEAST OF THE FUTURE 

From the fertile imagination of one of the liveliest minds in the science fiction spectrum come nineteen visions of possible tomorrows. Sometimes sardonic, sometimes sad, often amusing, always brilliant, harry harrison's collection of mind-spinning tales re-emphasises his status as a giant in the science fiction galaxy."

Contents:

Mute Milton
The Greatest Car In The World
The Final Battle
The Powers Of Observation
The Ghoul Squad
Toy Shop
You Men Of Violence
The Finest Hunter In The World
Down To Earth
Commando Raid
Not Me, Not Amos Cabot!
The Secret Of Stonehenge
Incident In The IND
If
Contact Man
The Pad
A Civil Service Servant
A Criminal Act
Famous First Words

MECHANISMO

Pierrot softcover 1978. Cover painting Sentry Biot by Jim Burns.

 "In MECHANISMO the future has come. In MECHANISMO intergalactic space travel has arrived, biotic robots are a thing of the present, space ports to service the stars and planets are real, space cities are inhabited, fantastic machines, time machines, battle robots and massive computers exist here and now. 

In MECHANISMO you can see a gaussi fighter in full colour and then as an engineer's technical drawing with the armaments, drive power and all specifications given in great detail. Here you will discover the most startling machines illustrated specially for the book: troop carriers, personnel craft, giant time machines, a computer that would fill an entire city and cities built in the image of man, visited by alien races. You will see too the technical drawings for an actual planned NASA space colony, twenty five miles long and two miles in diameter. 

In MECHANISMO you become part of the future and can live through the illustrations in worlds that may one day exist."

Painting by Bob Layzell.

Painting by Bob Layzell.

Painting by Colin Hay.

Painting by Alan Daniels.

Painting by Tony Roberts.

PLANET STORY

Pierrot softcover, 1979.

 "This epic tale of a doughty band of space pioneers who forge a railroad across Strabismus, the frontier of space, is lifted into the stratosphere with 50 pages of the most spectacular illustrations known to man. Jim Burns's long-awaited collaboration with Harry Harrison has produced a breath-taking set of images in a wild and witty space opera where a robot track-layer emerges from a vast spacecraft to crash its way through alien cities and uninhabited wastes."

Text is copyright © 1979 by Harry Harrison, illustrations are copyright © 1979 by Jim Burns.

Scoutship Pilot.

Professor Shlek.

 "The man, a thin and seedy-looking individual with a wispy grey beard and terminal acne, checked his crates then plugged into the viewscreen."

Robot Reception Guard.

"The robot riflemen raised their atomic rifles and fired a volley into the air; all except one defective robot who blew the head off the robot standing next to him. Cursing a vile oath, the Colonel issued another command and all of the other robots turned and fired and disintegrated their erring comrade."

WAR WITH THE ROBOTS

Panther SF paperback, 1976. Cover painting by Angus McKie.

"IT'S A MAN'S WORLD - BUT A ROBOT'S FUTURE... 

One day the tough, dangerous, dirty jobs will be done by robots: 

- superhumanly strong and invulnerable soldiers, with a built-in killer instinct 

- miners and sandhogs who can work on distant planets too deadly for man 

- incorruptible judges, fearing neither political pressure or criminal vengeance 

- librarians with total knowledge instantly available. 

Harry Harrison has painted a chilling yet piercingly prophetic picture of the Robot Age: a time when man's 'slave' machines have learned their own strength - and the weaknesses of their masters!"

Contents:

Simulated Trainer

The Velvet Glove

Arm of the Law

The Robot Who Wanted to Know

I See You

The Repairman

Survival Planet

War With The Robots

TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS

Berkley Medallion paperback, May 1974. Cover painting by
Richard M. Powers.

"A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! 

The time is the 1970's - sort of. The place is Earth - in a way. The project: build a tunnel from England to her colonies in America, under the Atlantic Ocean! Captain Gus Washington, engineer extraordinary, wrestles with awesome problems to complete the tunnel and redeem his family's name. For Gus is a direct descendant of the famous traitor of long ago, George Washington, who led a failed rebellion in the 1700's. Harry Harrison, that incomparable creator of alternate worlds, has  created a brilliant double exposure of history and a typically superb reading experience."