|
|
1
|
The Velvet Glove [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
Despite the Robot Equality Act, being a robot is tough. Jon Venex, a robot designed for work on Venus, needed a job bad or it could mean the scrap heap. When he found a job listing for Venex robot, it sounded too good to be true. And when you're a second-class citizen, like a robot, it usually is. He soon finds himself embroiled in a scheme with underground crime--literally and figuratively! 1956
Words: 7734 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
4 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
| |
Regular |
|
 |
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$0.99 |
|
|
|
$0.84 |
|
|
|
2
|
Deathworld [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
"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 turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite b... more info>> 1960
Words: 57604 - Reading Time: 164-230 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
18 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$2.99 |
|
|
|
$2.54 |
|
|
|
3
|
A Stainless Steel Trio [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy's
greatest thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has
outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through
dozens of star systems. Now three of the Rat's greatest exploits are
collected in a single omnibus volume. 2002
Category: Science Fiction
|
23 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$26.95 |
|
|
|
$22.91 |
| Micropay Rebate: |
$4.04 |
|
|
|
$3.44 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$22.91 |
|
|
|
$19.47 |
| You Save: |
14.99% |
|
|
|
27.76% |
|
|
|
4
|
The Repairman [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
The Mark III Hyperspace Beacon was the earliest type of beacon ever built--by Earth, no less. It was located on one of the Proxima Centauri planets, and it wasn't working. This was one of those jobs when being an interstellar trouble-shooter wouldn't have been so bad--if he could have shot the trouble! A classic science fiction tale from the author of the "Stainless Steel Rat," "Bill the Galactic Hero," and "Eden" series! 1958
Words: 5475 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
78 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$0.49 |
|
|
|
$0.42 |
|
|
|
5
|
Planet of the Damned [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
72 Hours in Hell! Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once--but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire--to kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could. Brion Brandd was sent in at the eleventh hour. His mission was to save Dis, but it looked as though he was going to preside over its annihilation. Planet of the Damned! 1962
Words: 55350 - Reading Time: 158-221 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
17 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$2.99 |
|
|
|
$2.54 |
|
|
|
6
|
Stars & Stripes Forever [A Novel of Alternate History] [Secure Mobipocket]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
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 defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
|
10 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$7.50 |
|
|
|
$6.38 |
| Micropay Rebate: |
$0.38 |
|
|
|
$0.32 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$7.12 |
|
|
|
$6.06 |
| You Save: |
5.07% |
|
|
|
19.2% |
|
|
|
7
|
Stars and Stripes Triumphant: A Novel of Alternate History [Secure Mobipocket]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
In England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city--spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Britain's Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, and a loyal opposition, a day of reckoning is at hand...and so is history's most astounding battle. Harry Harrison'... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
|
6 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$6.99 |
|
|
|
$5.94 |
| Micropay Rebate: |
$0.35 |
|
|
|
$0.30 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$6.64 |
|
|
|
$5.64 |
| You Save: |
5.01% |
|
|
|
19.31% |
|
|
|
8
|
Stars and Stripes in Peril [Secure Mobipocket]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
In a war room in Washington, William Tecumseh Sherman and General Robert E. Lee huddle together and plan their next, joint military operation. In the jungles of Mexico, Ulysses S. Grant is locked in brutal combat with the best of the British Army. And in the heart of the new American South a fragile peace is threatened ... In the dazzling alternate history of Harry Harrison, this is the world as it stands in 1863. Just three years before, a titanic Civil War loomed in America. But an incident in... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
|
2 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$6.99 |
|
|
|
$5.94 |
| Micropay Rebate: |
$0.35 |
|
|
|
$0.30 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$6.64 |
|
|
|
$5.64 |
| You Save: |
5.01% |
|
|
|
19.31% |
|
|
|
9
|
The Stainless Steel Rat in The Missing Battleship [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
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 ... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship--in the wrong hands!--can be most dangerous. 1960
Words: 11189 - Reading Time: 31-44 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
49 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$0.99 |
|
|
|
$0.84 |
|
|
|
10
|
The K-Factor [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
Speed never hurt anybody--it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing.... A classic from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, selected and edited by the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr. for "Analog." 1960
Words: 9786 - Reading Time: 27-39 min.
Category: Science Fiction
|
10 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$0.99 |
|
|
|
$0.84 |
|
|
|
11
|
Make Room! Make Room!: (Basis for Soylent Green) [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Harry Harrison
|
|
It is the year 1999 and the world has become grimly, terribly overpopulated. This is the premise of Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! and fans of his more comic work may be surprised at this bleak, foreboding novel. But Harrison's purpose in writing this book was serious and his concerns were real. Although his fears thankfully did not become a reality for the inhabitants of New York and the rest of the United States, the novel remains a gripping, thought-provoking work about pri... more info>>
Category: Science Fiction
|
26 Reader Ratings:
|
| |
Regular |
|
|
|
Club |
| You Pay: |
$5.99 |
|
|
|
$5.09 |
| Micropay Rebate: |
$0.30 |
|
|
|
$0.25 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$5.69 |
|
|
|
$4.84 |
| You Save: |
5.01% |
|
|
|
19.2% |
|
![Short [7734 words]](/images/short.gif "Short [7734 words]")
![Long [57604 words]](/images/long.gif "Long [57604 words]")
