Harry Harrison

Acclaimed science fiction writer Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1925. After serving in the military as a gunnery instructor during World War II, he attended art school and spent years working as an artist and illustrator in New York City. When he began his writing career, he found he needed a change of scenery and moved to Mexico with his wife and child. Harrison's propensity for itinerancy took the family to England, Italy, and Denmark, among other places. During the course of his writing career he published over forty novels, including the West of Eden trilogy, the popular Stainless Steel Rat series, Make Room! Make Room! and the graphic novel Death World. His novels have been translated into over twenty five languages. In 1973 he was honored with the Nebula Award. Harry Harrison lives in Ireland.

"A Criminal Act"


  Series

The Stainless Steel Rat

If you haven't met James Bolivar, you should.  These books are a great, fast read, like a B-SiFi flick. A chuckle and a half, guaranteed.



Bill, The Galatic Hero

  (chortle, chuckle, snort - wipe tear from eye)  


The Hammer and The Cross
w/ John Holm



The Hammer and the Cross
Mike Posen

One King's Way
Kevin Eugene Johnson

King and Emperor
Gary Ruddell

Hammer and the Cross
A fantasy adventure set in the 9th century. With plans under way for a Christian crusade against the pagan Viking lords of England, an English boy finds himself a pawn between those Vikings who would live in peace and those who seek only war.
One King's Way
A sequel to 'The Hammer and the Cross' which continues the story of Shef Sigvarthsson, god-chosen warrior and mystic. It is AD 867, and from the Vikings of the North Sea to the scheming priests of Germany, from the frozen north to the Finnish tundra, Shef fights his way towards kingship.
King and Emperor
Shef Sigvarthsson has turned England and the Northlands into a great empire. But despite the help from King Arthur, the Norse priests of the Asgarth Way, and others (including his father, the Aesir god Rig), he remained the One King. Without him the empire would crumble.

To The Stars


Homeworld
Bob Larkin

Wheelworld
Bob Larkin

Starworld
Bob Larkin

To The Stars
Clyde Caldwell


Homeworld
Jan Kulozik is one of earth's pribvilieged elite. A brilliant engineer, he enjoys all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization which survived global collapse & conquered the stars. Then he meets Sara, the beautiful, desirable agent of a rebel underground dedicated to smashing the iron rule of Earth's masters. She shows him a sordid world he never dreamed existed! And suddenly Jan has to choose--between slaves and masters. His choice plunges him into a web of intrigue, assassination and betrayal that will lead him to death,or to the stars.
Wheelworld
Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvmork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grainships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families. Then disaster. One year the ships do not come; starvation threatens Halvmork. Jan rallies the people for their own survival, and guides them on a perilous trek across half the planet. Battling heat and savage creatures, earthquakes and volcanoes, fighting the violence and treachery of the Families, Jan leads the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny.
Starworld
The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of revolt across half a world. With the aid of Dvora, a lovely but lethal comrade-at-arms, Jan races toward a rendezvous with destiny, and a reckoning with a treacherous double agent who holds the fate of the human race in his hands.

Death World


Deathworld I
Peter Elson

Deathworld 2
Peter Elson 

Deathworld 3
Peter Elson

Deathworld Trilogy
Richard Corben

Deathworld
It was a killer planet, dedicated to the annihilation of man. One moment's unwariness meant certain death.
Deathworld Two
The planet was unknown - a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man or live as a slave. The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by seperate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle.
Deathworld Three
The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke.. except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason knew this. But he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving towards certain disaster. And Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out a perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.
Deathworld Trilogy
An omnibus edition of Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" series. The collection tells the story of the planet Pyrrus, a terrible world where everything is designed to destroy man.

Brian Brandd


Planet of the Damned
Alan Craddock

Planet of No Return
Michael Whelan

Planet of the Damned
Brion Brandd of the Galactic CRF had a problem. It was the planet Dis. Brion's assignment was to salvage it. Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Disans made it worse. They might have been human once - but they were something else now. The Disans had only one desire - kill. Kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could. Brion had minutes to stop them - if he could find out how!
Planet of No Return
After the victory on Dis, which took place in Planet of the Damned, Brion Brandd and Dea are given another mission for the Cultural Relationships Foundation: they must travel to the planet Selm-Ill which has been newly rediscovered, and which is full of automated war weapons which automatically gun down anyone who approaches. They are to make the planet safe for habitation.

Eden


West of Eden
David Scheinkofer

Winter in Eden
Jerry LoFaro

Return to Eden
Ron Walotsky

West of Eden
About 65 million years ago, it is supposed that dinosaurs disappeared from Earth. But what if they didn't?
Winter in Eden
The dinosaurs continue to challenge humans for mastery of Earth in this follow-up to 'West of Eden'. Only now, a new Ice Age is on its way and the dinosaurs are facing extinction. They need to reconquer human territory. Kerrick, a hunter, launches a quest to rally a final defence for humankind.
Return to Eden
After Kerrick rescues his people from the war-like Yilane, they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive? And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vainte, his implacable Yilane enemy. She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last? For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her instincts - an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him.

Stars and Stripes


Stars and Stripes Forever

Stars and Stripes in Peril

Stars and Stripes Triumphant
Steve Stone


Stars and Stripes Forever
First in a trilogy which tells the story of a mid-19th century war that never happened. Prince Albert dies of typhoid before he can rewrite an intemperately-worded dispatch by Britain's Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, to Abraham Lincoln. Emotions in Washington and London escalate.
Stars and Stripes in Peril
This title follows a what if path of the British Empire pitted against her American colonies. The second title in the trilogy, only a brilliant plan by General Robert E. Lee enables the USA to attack the British forces where they least expect it and broaden the war for independence.
Stars and Stripes Triumphant
This alternate-history story describes the war that never was: the 1860s war between the USA and the British Empire. This episode, the third in the trilogy, focuses on the events that occur when the Irish become involved, and the culmination of the ill-fated war.


Novels


The Daleth Effect/In Our Hands The Stars
Chris Foss

A transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
Gordon C Davies

Plague From Space/The Jupiter Plague

Make Room! Make Room!
Richard Powers

The Technocolor Time Machine
Josh Kirby

Captive Universe
Chris Foss

Lifeboat/Life Ship w/ Gordon R Dickson
Peter Elson

Skyfall
Lionel Jeans

Planet Story
Jim Burns

Invasion:  Earth
Peter Elson

Rebel in Time
Thomas Kidd

Starsmashers of the Galaxy Rangers
Don Maitz

Stonehenge:  Where Atlantis Died
Melvyn Grant

The Daleth Effect/In Our Hands, the Stars
The Daleth Effect started in a small way when a test bench disintegrated. Within weeks it produced a power that could lift man to the stars, and within months it was the centre of a desperate power struggle, with Earth as the prize.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!/Tunnel Through The Deeps
Captain Augustine Washington and his team of navvies are driving a tunnel under the Atlantic in a heroic feat of construction. For Gus, a descendant of the infamous George Washington, executed as a traitor after the Battle of Lexington, this is a chance to redeem the family name.
Plague from Space/The Jupiter Plague
Dr. Sam Bertolli was there when the "Pericles" returned to Earth. He was the first man to reach Commander Rand as--hideously disfigured and close to death--Rand staggered off the spaceship.  From that moment, Bertolli became the only line of defense against a savage epidemic of slow and violent death. No form of life on Earth seemed safe from the raw, ugly boils that signaled the beginning of the Plague From Space.
Make Room! Make Room!
Sometime in the dark future of urban jungles, riots, food shortages, and senseless violence, a cynical New York City detective embarks on a desperate hunt for the truth.***Yeah, yeah, you might remember a little flim called "Soylent Green" starring Charleton Heston?  Movie was based on the book.  The book is better.  The book is frightening, like Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up." 
The Technicolor Time Machine
A mad scientist creates a time machine and a studio decides to shoot a movie about the original founding of the Americas by the vikings, using the original people.
Captive Universe
The valley was isolated in time and space, a land of barbarous science and human sacrifice. Coaticue the Dreadful stalked the night, her twin serpent heads dealing death to taboo-breakers. Chimal rebelled. He wanted to escape the cruel confines of his lost civilisation, to venture into the unknown realm beyond the valley - into a world of hope - and nightmare, too.
The Lifeship
w/ Gordon R Dickson

A saboteur's bomb ripped through the hull of the seemingly indestructible galactic liner, leaving bare minutes for the survivors of the alien crew and human cargo to evacuate ship. Giles Steel Ahsad, Adelman, found himself adrift in the tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two Albanareth crewmwn. Only the aliens knew how to pilot the vessel - and they had lost the will to live. . .
Skyfall
Operation Prometheus is a joint Soviet-American project that combines the specific knowledge of both countries in a way that will benefit the whole world. The mighty 2000 tonne Prometheus is the largest piece of space hardware ever launched. The nerve-racking predicament of its crew of six - incarcerated together with their fears, emotions and frictions - shrinks to nothing beside the horrifying destruction which threatens hundreds of thousands of people on earth if nothing can be found to move the satellite from its decaying orbit. The lethal radioactive fuel, Uranium 235, which the vessel is carrying gives the crisis an acute international urgency, and the politicians play out their power games in the light of this desperate knowledge.
Planet Story
Planet Story is an ebullient space opera in which the world of Strabismus is invaded by an immense automatic track-laying robot which slams down railway line across the planet through the city, forest and steppelands and rolling farmland providing access for the Untied States of earth to a rich mineral deposit.
Invasion: Earth
They came from beyond the galaxy, bent on world domination,the alien terror that endangered mankind. They deceived men into believing they sought only peace. And as their battle fleets threatened earth with extinction, only one man could save the human race.
A Rebel in Time
McCulloch was up to no good and secret agent Troy Harman was after him, even if it meant travelling back in time, to the American civil war!
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
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.
Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died



Collections


War With The Robots
John Schoenherr

Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows

One Step From Earth
Chris Foss

Prime Number
Peter Elson

The Men From P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T.
Peter Jones

The Best of Harry Harrison
Ed Soyka

Galatic Dreams
Keith Parkinson

50 in 50
Vincent DiFate

War With The Robots
A Word From the (human) Author

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

Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows
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

One Step From Earth
The Matter Transmitter
One step from earth
Pressure
No war, or battle's sound
Wife to the lord
Waiting place
The life preservers
From fanaticism, or for reward
Heavy duty
A tale of the ending

Prime Number
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 Cabott
The Secret Of Stonehenge
Incident In The Ind
If
Contact man
The pad
A Cil Service Servant
A Criminal Act
Famous First Words

The Men From P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T.
The men off the Patrol are the warriors and policemen of space. And none have more dangerous assignments than those from the P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. battalions! The time has come when the Patrol is spread too thinly around the galaxy. New planets are constantly being colonized, bringing fresh problems of law-enforcement and defence against alien attack. So new solutions are sought: like the setting-up of special units called P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. -units that are self-supporting and equipped to handle even the most dangerous situations.
Best of Harry Harrison
The Street's of Ashkelon

Captain Honario Harpplayer
R.N.
Rescue Operation
At Last
The True Story of Frankenstein
I always do what Teddy Says
Portrait of the Artist
Not Me
Not Amos Cabot
Mute Milton
A Criminal Act
Waiting Place
If
I Have My Vigil
From Fanaticism or For Reward
By the Falls
The Ever-Branching Tree
Brave Newer World
Roommates
The Mothballed Spaceship
An Honest Day's Work
Space Rats of the C.C.C.

Galactic Dreams
I Always Do What Teddy Says

Space Rats of the CCC
Down to Earth
A Criminal Act
Famous First Words
The Pad
If
Mute Milton
Simulated Trainer
At Last the True Story of Frankenstein
The Robot Who Wanted to Know
Bill the Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday

50 in 50

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Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology
"The Mothballed Spaceship"
Frank Kelly Freas



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