A review by ianbanks
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World by Harry Harrison

5.0

This was my first encounter with The Stainless Steel Rat and it remains my favourite entry in the series. In this one, Mr Harrison retreads some plot ideas from his even funnier novel The Technicolor Time Machine but spins them with some inimitable Stainless Steel Rat action. This was a glorious, amazing read when I was 14 and it's still a heap of fun nearly 35 years later. The mind bending timey-wimey shenanigans feel like a deus ex machina until you start to look closely at the plot when they become part of a clockwork puzzle designed by Picasso and built by M. C. Escher with parts crafted by B. S. Johnson.

Glorious, nostalgic fun.