>No offense to Laudre, but... good. IMHO, the more family Harrison
>added, the worse the stories got. He was best in the beginning, a
>single rat against the universe!

Well, I'm about to blaspheme here.

Harrison has some -very- neat ideas (witness Make Room, Make Room! and the Eden series, to say nothing of the Rat's adventures), but he is at best, IMHO, a mediocre -writer.- His characters tend to be -very- one-dimensional, Slippery Jim being one of the few we get a more solid picture of. My favorite Rat story, for this reason is 'A Stainless Steel Rat is Born,' which gives us a solid view of where Jim comes from and how, despite his criminal tendencies, he developed his inner moral core.

OTOH, my -second- favorite Rat story is 'Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!', which involves Jim and his rescue cre- um, his family.

There will be an Angelina of some sort- whether she is actually named Angelina I don't know, but she -will- be Jim's intellectual equal. Any children of the union, however, will be different, as James and Bolivar were not even complex enough to be one-dimensional characters. They're the sci-fi pulp version of Rosencranz and Guildenstern.

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