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(You don't blow-up the bridge, you blow-up the road to the bridge. Likewise with powerplants.)
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus -- chapter 21
He was a good and experienced climber. I would have stopped for breath by this time. He just went at it hand over hand at a steady pace. Reached the junction of the four legs. That should be it. But no, he went on until he appeared to be as high as the cables pendant from their immense insulators. Then he stopped. A dark smudge against the bright metal of the tower.
And seemed to remain there for an awfully long time.
I don’t know much clock time passed before he started back down. Subjective time seemed to last and last. And then I could see that he was moving back down, surely and steadily. He jumped the last few meters, smiling and wiping the grit from his hands.
“A piece of cake. Timed to blow in two hours.”
“We’ll have a front seat for the show.”
“We will indeed.”...
“Just about time-” Bolivar said when the ball of flame flared out. Changed to dark billows of smoke.
For long moments nothing happened. The copter bumped a bit when the sound of the explosion reached us.
“Now,” Bolivar said.
And it was going. The top of the tower was bending, falling almost gracefully. Then the giant insulators began to turn and twist, the immense cables stirring and writhing. Falling.
I could see lightning spear out as the falling cables broke, twisting as though in pain. Twisted and fell, faster and faster, followed by the ruined tower. Splashing down into the sea in great furrows of waves that stretched across the width of the channel. -
"Iam ni tenis la tutan mondon en niaj manoj, sed ni ĝin manĝis kaj forbruligis, kaj nun ĝi malaperis."
– Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!“One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!„Einst hielten wir die ganze Welt in unseren Händen, doch wir haben sie verschlungen und verbrannt, und nun ist sie verschwunden.“
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Born this day: 03/12/1925 (d. 08/15/2012)
Harry Harrison was an American SF author and SFWA Grand Master best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series and Make Room! Make Room!, which inspired the film Soylent Green. He also wrote the Deathworld trilogy and Bill the Galactic Hero, blending satirical wit with classic space opera.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #HarryHarrison @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
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Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Filmowy wehikuł czasu” Harry Harrison«Podróże i majstrowanie w czasie to jeden z kanonicznych obszarów XX-wiecznej fantastyki naukowej. Źródeł inspiracji dla tych pomysłów można doszukiwać się we wcześniejszych powieściach i opowiadaniach o wizjach, a nawet o legendach, na przykład o ponad półwiecznym śnie, w który zapadł Epimenides z Krety, domniemany cudotwórca z Fajstos (VII/ VI wiek p.n.e.). O niestałości czasu jako zmiennej miary przemijania rozważał także w jednym ze swoich dzieł Święty Augustyn z Hippony (IV wiek n.e.)...
#Fahrenheit_zin #recenzja #DomWydawniczyRebis #AndrzejJankowski #HarryHarrison #SławomirFolkman #IgorMorski #TomaszKokowski #PiotrMocniak #KatarzynaZegadłoGałecka #Filmowywehikułczasu #TheTechnicolorTimeMachine
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Fantastyka:
»Harry Harrison „Filmowy wehikuł czasu”«Informacje na temat książki Harry'ego Harrisona "Filmowy wehikuł czasu", która ukazała się nakładem Domu Wydawniczego Rebis.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/harry-harrison-filmowy-wehikul-czasu/
#Fahrenheit_zin #DomWydawniczyRebis #AndrzejJankowski #HarryHarrison #Rebis #SławomirFolkman #IgorMorski #PiotrMocniak #KatarzynaZegadłoGałecka #Filmowywehikułczasu #TheTechnicolorTimeMachine
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Harry Harrison, "The Streets of Ashkelon" (short story available in Stainless Steel Rat Visions".
#HarryHarrison #StainlessSteelRatVisions
[extract]
He had just reached the fringes of the village clearing when the rumbling grew to a head-splitting roar and the spacer broke through the low-hanging layer of clouds above. Garth shielded his eyes from the down-reaching tongue of flame and examined the growing form of the gray-black ship with mixed feelings.
"You better go ahead, Itin, " he said. "Use the water so you can get to the village quickly. Tell everyone to get back into the swamps, well clear of the hard ground. That ship is landing on instruments and anyone underneath at touchdown is going to be cooked. "
The ship baked dry a hundred square meters of mud, the roaring blast died, and the landing feet crunched down through the crackling crust. Metal creaked and settled into place while the cloud of smoke and steam slowly drifted lower in the humid air.
... a figure stepped out ...
Hi, my name's James Cameron, and I'm a thieving little shit. -
"Survival Planet" short story, included in the "Stainless Steel Rat Visions" anthology written by Harry Harrison ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_(Star_Trek:_Enterprise)
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from the Alex Cox 2014 kickstarter funded film adaptation of Harry Harrison's novel "Bill, the Galactic Hero" comes the song (*fanfare*) ...
"Bill, the Galactic Hero" by Iggy Pop and the Intergalactic Troll
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#HarryHarrison predicted #PeteHegseth !!!
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (SSR4)
chap 7
An improbable parade of slithering, hopping and crawling figures slopped up when we appeared through the lock, the Bolivar-robot carrying the carefully constructed alien luggage. One individual in slimy gold braid stepped out of the pack and waved a lot of claws in my direction.
“Welcome, stellar ambassador,” it said. “I am Gar-Baj, First Official of War Council.”
“A pleasure, I’m sure. I am Sleepery Jeem of Geshtunken.”
“Is Sleepery your first name or a title?”
“It means, in the language of my race, He Who Walks on Backs of Peasants With Sharp Claws, and denotes a member of the nobility.” -
Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison
(somewhere around Chapter 16)
I told them all right, and was rewarded with a number of girlish gasps, and at least one screech when I got to the wrist part. Taze even stopped the car so she could look at the scars too. After that they listened in cold-eyed stillness and I almost felt sorry for any of the gray men they might meet in the future. By the time I had finished my fascinating and slightly repulsive story we had arrived at wherever we were going. A wide door opened at our approach and closed behind us. Other girls were there, well armed and attractive for the most part, and I wondered how the Konsolosluk party had ever managed to muster up a resistance to a government like this. Thank the Cliaandians for that. When it comes to governments and armies I’m pretty much of an anarchist and think least is best in both departments. But if you have to have them it sure helps if they are pretty. I shook my head, realizing that my thoughts still hadn’t a firm grip on reality, and let myself be led to a room where there was a very enticing army cot. I dropped onto it.
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a panel from the 2000AD strip adaptation of Harry Harrison's first Stainless Steel Rat book has appeared in the middle of a search for Captain Klep
#CarlosEzquerra #StainlessSteelRat #HarryHarrison #2000ADComics
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Just finished reading #themurderbotdiaries vol 1 by #marthawells. An excellent book. I thought different better than the #appleplus version. I adored and laughed through the tv series but I found the books more entrenched with #scifi norms and probably more serious. Read like a #harryharrison book. #bookreview #bookstodon
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#Unobtainium *coff coff*
Wikipedia, Deathworld
"There have been numerous supernovae in the region, meaning that planets in the area are rich in valuable radioactive ores, but Pyrrus is the only even marginally habitable one, and thus the only one that can support sustained mining operations. Pyrrus is no paradise. It has a gravity of 2 g; its 42° axial tilt creates severe weather; it has frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; two large moons generate tides of up to 30 meters; and finally, there are high levels of radiation."
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Why watch Avatar3 or any of James Cameron's films when you can read the short fast-paced Vietnam War allegory DeathWorld by Harry Harrison and its two official sequels!?
Same goes for the Predator franchise. AfterEarth. 65 ... -
In my teens I was profoundly affected by a small number of books that I read. As a result of reading them I became intensely interested in the politics of pacifism and the strategies of conflict resolution and resistance. My introduction to science fiction was a suitcase full of books given to me by my dad’s best friend. I was at that stage in a Reading Child’s life where I’d have read baked bean cans, so I plowed through an eclectic selection of books.
The first two to really affect me were Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered (1977) and Brian Stableford’s The Florians (1976). In the first—a fix-up—an intergalactic agent, selected precisely because he is conflict averse, begins to crumble as a consequence of the pressures between his childhood Buddhist upbringing and the violence he has experienced and perpetrated in his job. In the second, a man who has lost his son to a pacifist movement discovers while on a mission the power of saying “No” when faced with the threat of violence.
These books led me to the Quakers. I started attending when I was 15 and joined in my mid-20s. I pursued a master’s degree in peace studies and eventually a doctorate in peace history. At the same time I was looking out for alternatives to conflict in science fiction. Orson Scott Cards’ Speaker for the Dead (1986), with its argument that Truth is a very powerful weapon, blew me away. Judith Moffett’s anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist Pennterra (1987) and Joan Slonczewski’s Still Forms on Foxfield (1980), with its refuseniks and the calm seeking of consensus which is a feature of both novels (even if Moffett’s Quakers achieve it amazingly quickly) taught me to slow down in my own decision making. Piers Anthony’s Golem in the Gears (1986) introduced me to the concept of game play in decision making and thinking through decision trees. And Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987) taught me about the potential for mass civil disobedience, in its depiction of a pacifist population concluding that the civil contract is so broken that it no longer needs to adhere to its side of the bargain.
Not all resistance is direct. Some is about creating a new paradigm and taking the world along with you. Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984) argues that if you change the language, you change the way people think and you change the world. In the book the revolution fails, but considerable changes in our world have been brought about this way, which may be why language has become a primary target for the American presidential administration. Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) takes this even further; new language and a new mindset lead to a new religious order which remakes the world. Resistance can also be about living your life in an active mode of refusal; in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Ti-Jeanne and Gross-Jeane fight day by day to resist the world they live in, and to help others survive. In Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors (2023), resistance focuses on the power of religion as those who are not the chosen, whose prophecies do not come true, seek to shape a new way of living. Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire (2019) is about resistance to cultural imperialism on an inter-galactic scale, and Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to Earth (2021) operates at both a metaphysical and a local level.
A recent author to take on the topic of resistance is Naomi Kritzer in a trilogy of tales from 2023. The short story “Better Living Through Algorithms” exhorts workers to take control of their lives and collaborate in their leisure as an act of resistance to corporate wellness culture. “The Year Without Sunshine” is another story that emphasizes community resistance to external paradigms of sink-or-swim libertarianism, while Liberty’s Daughter sees the underclasses on a seastead—bonded laborers and the noncitizen children of citizens—use the disruption of a plague to raise their own value and force a redistribution of property. It is very utopian, but its core message is that our labor matters, solidarity is our strength, and that injustice is not inevitable; all important messages right now.
Farah MendlesohnFarah Mendlesohn is a con-runner, a retired history professor, a charity manager, co-editor of the Hugo Award-Winning Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, author of the Hugo-nominated The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, and is currently working on a short book about Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (preorder Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore). Farah has chaired three Eastercons, has served in various capacities in Worldcons and Eastercons, and is part of the World Fantasy 2025 team. (Farah/they/she)
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/07/04/fantastic-fiction-resistance-2/
#ArkadyMartine #BrianStableford #DarcieLittleBadger #HarryHarrison #JoanSlonczewski #JoeHaldeman #JudithMofett #NaloHopkinson #NaomiKritzer #OctaviaButler #OrsonScottCard #PiersAnthony #SuzetteHadenElgin #VajraChandrasekera
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I really enjoyed the Stainless Steel Rat series from #HarryHarrison as a middle-schooler. -
#2022isopravvissuti di #RichardFleischer Tratto dal romanzo #largolargo pubblicato da ##HarryHarrison nel 1966, fra i primi autori di fantascienza a parlare di sovrappopolamento ed esaurimento delle risorse globali, questo “2022: i sopravvissuti” ci racconta... #cinema #film #unocinema #unofilm #filmastodon #charltonheston
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Virgil Finlay cover for Fantastic Universe, March 1958, illustrating 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 by “Felix Boyd” (Harry Harrison). Trick, or treat? #FinlayFriday
“This is our dance,” he said in a deep voice rich with meaning. Almost automatically she took the proferred hand, unable to resist this man with the strange gleam in his eyes. In a moment they were waltzing and it was heaven.
#VirgilFinlay #HarryHarrison #Illustration #Robots #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction
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Ooh, a new thing I can join in with...
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
1/20
#20Books20Days #Bookstodon #Books #SciFi #HarryHarrison #TheStainlessSteelRat
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Odszukałem „Billa, bohatera Galaktyki”, o którym przypomniał mi @fahrenheit i zdziwiłem się, że papier zdążył pożółknąć, przecież kupiłem w sumie niedawno. Aż zakumałem, że to „niedawno” było trzydzieści lat temu :/
#książka #HarryHarrison #BillBohaterGalaktyki #ZdziwieniaStaregoCzłowieka
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Aktualności:
»Wrocławskie Spotkania z Fantastyką – „Bill, bohater galaktyki” Harry’ego Harrisona«W środę 27 marca odbędą się LXXIX Wrocławskie Spotkania z Fantastyką. Tym razem na tapet zostanie wzięta powieść "Bill, bohater galaktyki" Harry'ego Harrisona.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/wroclawskie-spotkania-z-fantastyka-bill-bohater-galaktyki-harryego-harrisona/#Fahrenheit_zin #humor #Fantastyka #HarryHarrison #BillbohaterGalaktyki #książki #WrocławskieSpotkaniaZFantastyką #WSF
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ARMAGEDDON (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 20" x 30"Even after all humankind has been wiped out, mechanized engines of destruction continue to eradicate the last traces of civilization. 1/
#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #harryharrison
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I read 30 sci-fi novels in 2023. The best of them was Harry Harrison’s semi-comic space opera adventure romp The Stainless Steel Rat (1961).
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/06/harry-harrisons-stainless-steel-rat.html