The Stainless Steel Rat still shines bright
It’s been ten years since the last Stainless Steel Rat book, and now Harry Harrison is back with another tale of “Slippery” Jim diGriz. John T. Ottinger ventures into Harrison’s dangerous world, and lives to tell the tale. Spoilers below… Having never read any of the Stainless Steel Rat stories by Harry Harrison, I was…
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John T. Ottinger - Grasping For The Wind
In Burroughs’ final Barsoom series, we see urban Mars, synthetic flesh, and Nazis of Jupiter
In the last installment of our Reading Barsoom series, find out what happens when Edgar Rice Burroughs tried to write an “urban” novel of Mars, why “synthetic men” suck, and how Nazi aliens built Salt Lake City on Jupiter. One thing missing from the Mars series is ordinary Martian cities. Burroughs spends so much time…
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