A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

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This was another book I read as a kid and had fond memories of. When I found it at Powell's books for under $4 I just had to pick it up. Harrison seems to focus on "pulp science fiction" -- all of the stuff I have seen from him has been short and easy reading, as is the case with this book. What do you do if you're stuck on a farming planet, smart, and bored out of your brain? Apparently the answer is to turn to a life of crime for entertainment. That's what James DeGriz does, and he is a great anti-hero while he's at it. Great book. [isbn: 0553279424]

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Today email arrived with the contract for my second book (following on from The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick). This one is a still-secret project hatched with Stewart Smith, and I don't want to mention the topic in public just yet. There are two reasons for that -- there's always a risk that the whole project will be a massive train wreck, and because Stewart and I haven't talked yet about how we want to do the announcement. This book will be done with Apress, which I guess means that I thought they were pretty good to work with the first time. Anyway, just keeping you up to date on the gossip...

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