New RAT Book!

If you’ve arrived at this blog looking for news of the new Stainless Steel Rat book by Harry Harrison, you can find the original announcement here:

http://harryharrison.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/exclusive-news-new-stainless-steel-rat-book/

And the first three chapters have been posted on this blog beginning 13th July 2009:

 http://harryharrison.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-stainless-steel-rat-returns-chapter-1/

For other posts on the series, select Stainless Steel Rat in the Categories drop-down menu on the right hand side.

April 2009 update: Harry Harrison has completed the first draft of the new novel. Latest reports are that the Russian edition will be the first world edition – was was the case with The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus - which will hopefully be published in December 2009. The Tor edition should follow early in the new year. No news yet of a UK edition or other editions.

12th June 2009 Update: Good news this week is that I had an e-mail from Harry to say that the new Stainless Steel Rat novel has been completed and submitted to the US publisher, Tor, and – I think – to the Russian publisher.

As previously posted, the Russian edition will be the first world edition. Still no news on an English publisher…

July 2009 update: Tor in the USA have scheduled publication of The Stainless Steel Rat Returns! for early summer 2010. No news yet on dates for other editions. The Russian edition is expected to be the first world edition, published in late 2009. In the meantime, the first three chapters have been posted on this blog – see link above.