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Long Live the Rat!
"When Kingsley Amis read the first Stainless Steel Rat novel he said, 'Well, Harry, you have written the first picaresque science fiction novel.' I nodded sagaciously-and at the first opportunity rushed to my dictionary.
"Picaresque 1," of or relating to a type of fiction in which the hero, a rogue, goes through a series of episodic adventures.
Well, that is a fair enough description. My hero is alone against the universe, with every man's hand-if not every woman's-turned against him. He is without the law, verily a law unto himself, with a strict sense of morality. Aren't the two mutually incompatible? No, as you will soon discover..." -Harry Harrison, from the Introduction
"Cheerfully larcenous and anarchic. Long may the Rat run roughshod over the forces of law, order, and the square world." -"The Orlando Sentinel"
"Harrison's fictions constitute one of the main monuments in modern SF." -Paul Di Filippo, "Scifi.com," on "50 in 50"