Harry Harrison: Stories

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1 Arm of the Law

At one time,this was before the Robot Restriction Laws they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions It was a big, coffin shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped it through the door of the police station and started away. I looked up from the blotter and shouted at the trucker. "What the hell is that?" "How should I know?" he said as he swung up into the cab. "I just deliver, I don't X-ray 'em. It came on the morning rocket from is all I know."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1709 | Votes: 142 | Score: 8.44
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2 Deathworld

The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder... It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, War, Military, Assassins, Supernatural, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 3569 | Votes: 173 | Score: 8.78
Size: 309KB | 58,488 words | Posted:

3 The Ethical Engineer

That mores is strictly a matter of local custom cannot be denied. But that ethics is pure opinion also...? Maybe there are times for murder, and theft and slavery....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1683 | Votes: 63 | Score: 8.56
Size: 228KB | 43,398 words | Posted:

4 The K-factor

Speed never hurt anybody--it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing....
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 772 | Votes: 38 | Score: 7.47
Size: 53KB | 9,940 words | Posted:

5 The Misplaced Battleship

Slippery Jim diGriz--a.k.a. The Stainless Steel Rat--is back in this classic adventure, originally published in the April, 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship. but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship--in the wrong hands!--can be most dangerous.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2260 | Votes: 160 | Score: 8.34
Size: 59KB | 11,278 words | Posted:

6 Navy Day

The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant _anything_, including up-to-date hornpipes!
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 549 | Votes: 45 | Score: 7.20
Size: 10KB | 1,856 words | Posted:

7 Planet of the Damned

Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory, Brandd is swept off to the hellish planet Dis where he must use his heightened sense of empathy to help avert a global nuclear holocaust by negotiating with the blockading fleet.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1671 | Votes: 47 | Score: 8.70
Size: 302KB | 56,353 words | Posted:

8 The Repair Man

A stellar communications repairman is sent to repair a beacon on a planet, and discovers that its presence had a profound influence on the planet in question. Needing to deal with a locally evolved sentience and a bizarre ritual, the repairman needs to use his best plan to complete his mission and end up alive and whole too.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1194 | Votes: 96 | Score: 7.66
Size: 28KB | 5,467 words | Posted:

9 Toy Shop

The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 933 | Votes: 69 | Score: 7.71
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

10 The Velvet Glove

SF writer and editor Harry Harrison explores a not too distant future where robots--particularly specialist robots who don't know their place--have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed--but so what?
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 668 | Votes: 40 | Score: 8.45
Size: 41KB | 7,816 words | Posted:
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