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==Reception== |
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[[David Langford|Dave Langford]] reviewed ''You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat'' for ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' #73, and stated that "(Harrison), a talented and able writer, shows his versatility by effortlessly turning off these qualities...he cracks some good jokes, but literary ability seems irrelevant to these game books (look at the people who usually write them). Playability? Unless you get bored and go to sleep there's no way to lose, or to escape the linear 'plot' to which Harrison has merely added decorative, swiftly returning loops...My [[Damning with faint praise|all-purpose review for such efforts]] is designed to appease the publishers: 'This one is a real page-turner!'"<ref name="WD73">{{cite magazine | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass | magazine =[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]] | issue =73 | pages =9 | publisher =[[Games Workshop]] | |
[[David Langford|Dave Langford]] reviewed ''You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat'' for ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' #73, and stated that "(Harrison), a talented and able writer, shows his versatility by effortlessly turning off these qualities...he cracks some good jokes, but literary ability seems irrelevant to these game books (look at the people who usually write them). Playability? Unless you get bored and go to sleep there's no way to lose, or to escape the linear 'plot' to which Harrison has merely added decorative, swiftly returning loops...My [[Damning with faint praise|all-purpose review for such efforts]] is designed to appease the publishers: 'This one is a real page-turner!'"<ref name="WD73">{{cite magazine | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass | magazine =[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]] | issue =73 | pages =9 | publisher =[[Games Workshop]] | = January 1986 }}</ref> |
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==Reviews== |
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*''[[Science Fiction Chronicle]]''<ref>https://archive.org/details/sim_chronicle_1988-09_9_12/page/62/mode/2up</ref> |
*''[[Science Fiction Chronicle]]''<ref>https://archive.org/details/sim_chronicle_1988-09_9_12/page/62/mode/2up</ref> |
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==References== |
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Latest revision as of 05:20, 19 June 2024
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat is a novel by Harry Harrison published in 1988.
Plot summary
[edit]You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat is a novel in which the reader can move to numbered paragraphs like a gamebook.[1]
Reception
[edit]Dave Langford reviewed You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat for White Dwarf #73, and stated that "(Harrison), a talented and able writer, shows his versatility by effortlessly turning off these qualities...he cracks some good jokes, but literary ability seems irrelevant to these game books (look at the people who usually write them). Playability? Unless you get bored and go to sleep there's no way to lose, or to escape the linear 'plot' to which Harrison has merely added decorative, swiftly returning loops...My all-purpose review for such efforts is designed to appease the publishers: 'This one is a real page-turner!'"[1]
Reviews
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Langford, Dave (January 1986). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 73. Games Workshop. p. 9.
- ^ "Science Fiction Chronicle 1988-09: Vol 9 Iss 12". DNA Publications. September 1988.
External links
[edit]- Biography entry of Harry Harrison