I absolutely LOVED the Deathworld series when I grew up and was expecting something along those lines, but thinking back, maybe Deathworld was kind of shallow too. If you have the spare time and end up with the book, by all means read it as there's nothing inherently _wrong_ with it. Not a lot of "deep thought" or heavy thinking is required from this title. It it doesn't get BETTER, I've got other things I'd rather re-read! After that I went online to read some other opinions and it certainly sounded like that was the best of the three. I actually only read the first of three stories in this book. So if that's all you want, certainly an "OK" read. Coypu, diGriz travels to '84 America, then to Napoleonic France where tanks & aircraft are helping bring about Napoleon's victory. Using the Helix, a time-travel device invented by the Special Corps' Prof. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972): The villainous He has travelled back in time to humankind's distant past on the legendary planet Earth ('Dirt') of '84, where he's altering events so that people who opposed him in the Rat's present cease to exist, Angelina amongst them.
He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, & eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war & keep him out of the arms of the Amazons. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj. Against the odds, its Grey Men are invading & taking over planet after planet. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970): DiGriz & Angelina are happily married, expecting the birth of sons. DiGriz' dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he's fallen in love with her. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself & the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. In the peaceful League no one has battleships any more, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books:
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