Dec 14
Click for full imageDon Comments: It was originally supposed to be “The Stainless Steel Boob-Juggler’s Revenge”, but then we wouldn’t have room on the cover for this lovely art.
Published 1973
Many thanks to Don!
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December 14th, 2010 at 10:05 am
French circus’ are awesome…
December 14th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Granted, and much to my shame, I’ve only read the first Stainless Steel Rat book… but I definitely don’t remember anything to suggest he routinely wears giant aluminium naked-lady waders.
December 14th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I suspect this is the one with the curvaceous baddie Angelina stealing the giant battleship, in which case the cover is in spirit with the book…
December 14th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Slippery Jim di Griz and his two big balls of revenge.
December 14th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
In France they call it ‘Pétanque’.
December 14th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
This is the cover by Richard Powers I think, one of the more odd covers i must say. I think this is the one where James and Angelina are married and she turns up to stop him getting to ‘involved’ with the local amazonian curvaceous ladies 🙂
Still don’t get why he’s levitating two metal stress balls?
December 15th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Slippery Jim’s got huge stainless balls of steel, I’ll grant him that….
… but a huge stainless corset and stockings??
Is there something about him that Harry Harrison haven’t told us?
(It’s okay, Jim. We won’t hate or judge you for being a Stainless Steel Transvestite.)
December 15th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Love me some Harrison, but his novels got some amazing covers.
It’s awesome that this one keeps in the theme of the previous Stainless Steel Rat (which has only ONE floating metal ball, and a random purple heart!): http://members.cox.net/sjrohde3/images/books_h/harrison_ssr_berks2015.gif
December 16th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
See, the way the text is wrapped, I’m reading it as:
The Stainless: Steel Rat’s Revenge.
Maybe Steel Rat has other adventures, along with his pals from The Stainless… Steel Cat, Steel Dog, and Steel Parrot.
The Stainless is actually the name of their cadre, right? O.o
Also, what’s with the giant Abdominal Triangle on the woman-form? Is that her pantyline?
December 23rd, 2010 at 3:17 am
Given the cover, has the artist already undergone brainwashing by the Kekkonshiki, a/k/a the”Grey Men”, that our somewhat larcenous hero, encounters later in the book, including the Axon feed, or is this merely a ad by the Claand Tourist Board…?
August 7th, 2011 at 2:51 am
Yes, it’s Richard Powers. BTW–before you criticize other people’s work, how about using your spare time to learn punctuation and spelling?
In other words, you’re really bad at both!
August 8th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
What punk’uation and speeling offends you sir?
January 27th, 2023 at 7:15 pm
If ya want it then ya gotta put a ring on it
January 27th, 2023 at 7:55 pm
“I got quite good at juggling during my time in the jug.”
January 27th, 2023 at 8:25 pm
He looks like a cross between Michael Myers and Anton Chigur.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:59 pm
Is it surprising that a guy named “Jim di Griz” is slippery? Or that
Jim di Sanz is gritty?
Jim di Smalz is tiny?
Jim di Dumz is stupid?
January 28th, 2023 at 2:41 am
I really like these books but thankfully didn’t read them in this set of covers. One time when the SFBC cover wasn’t the worst. And I KNOW they wouldn’t have allowed this printing in my high school library; it would have been missing its cover immediately.
January 28th, 2023 at 3:04 am
Didn’t quite grasp the sheer idiocy of that cover on the first pass. https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Agj6dq9y4YgsZxKbb5XODwHaE7?pid=ImgDet&rs=1
He does have to wear a silly striped costume in the book, but IIRC it was yellow, not red (the local military types are the ones with blood-colored outfits). Of course, he later wears stolen uniforms so maybe the artist decided to just mash them up?