The Stainless Steel Rat

Extract: I chose "The Stainless Steel Rat" because I felt it was one of those classic SF books that I should read. Besides, one of my favorite blogs right now is called "Stainless Steel Dropping". So I figured I really needed to get that reference, as well as to see what all the fuss was about. I was a bit worried I was going to get standard space opera. What I found was an incredibly well-written, darkly-comic tale of a gruff but lovable anti-hero. I was hooked at the first page…