Talk:The Stainless Steel Rat

message: Is it notable that all these stories are written in the first person? 68.107.83.19 (talk) 09:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Richard75 (talk) 01:48, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: First person

message: I'm not trying to instigate an edit war here, but I have a question about the  reinstatement.  I removed it and replaced it with the equivalent wiki-markup (a colon at the beginning of the line).  I also removed the italics and replaced it with quotes (my preference, sorry).  Aside from that, I saw no visual difference between the two.  Do some people's browser do something special with the  that it doesn't do with the wikimarkup?  I'm using the evil IE... ;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the goal was to use as little HTML as possible, since the wikimarkup is easier to use.  That way people don't have to know HTML to edit a page, just simple wikimarkup.  Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm looking for enlightenment. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:01, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
:The  tags without the  which usually makes up the set.
:Converting raw HTML markup to wiki syntax is great for tables and the like, where there is a direct equivalent, but in this particular case there is not. If we ever adjust wiki syntax to include an equivalent to the  tag which would allow specifying formats for multiple columns in a table in one easy motion).
:HTH HAND --Phil | Talk 08:13, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
Harrison also wrote Stainless Steel Visions () that has a DiGriz story in it. I haven't got the book so I don't know where it fits in the chronology, otherwise I'd put it in.
Also, a quick look on Amazon shows a couple of omnibus books - Stainless Steel Adventures (SSR, SSRR and SSRSTW) and A Stainless Steel Trio (SSRIB, SSRGD, SSRSTB). I might just add those once I know enough to add the info on Visions.Confusing Manifestation 17:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: On blockquote

message: I don't have a copy of any of the books to hand, but there was a quote on the back cover of the paperback reissues to the effect that it was a kind of "Monty Python of the spaceways". The series was always a kind of satire, like "Bill the Galactic Hero" (Jim diGriz was impossibly good at everything, and there were constant pokes at the military). How do we get this across in the article without it sounding like an opinion? There isn't much proper on-line criticism of these books, which is a shame because the first five or so are great fun. Lupine Proletariat 14:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't find the first book particularly humourous - did they get more blatant ? -- Beardo (talk) 02:41, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monet 

message: The intro needs to say a bit more about who the Stainless Steel Rat actually is, rather than the article just plunging straight into a list of books and characters. I'd do it myself but it's been a few years since I read any of them. Could someone have a go? Richard75 (talk) 01:50, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: In The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, the adult Jim di Griz is consternated that the impossible appears to be happening - interplanetary invasion on the grand scale, involving the lifting of millions of tons of men and materiel out of the gravity-well of one planet and then vectoring it accross the galaxy to dump on another planet many light-years away. DiGriz notes that the expense of all this must be prohibitive and, viewing some foggy amateur film of an invasion taking place, is mind-boggled and consternated at seeing the clearly impossible. 
His memory must be at fault here, as in the chronologically earlier The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, as an adolescent he is part of the army of interstellar grunts doing exactly the same thing.  
A peril of revisitig an established character's youth almost thirty years later? 92.25.179.186 (talk) 08:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: A bothersome inconsistency

message: Sir Terry Pratchett's characters of Moist von Lipwig and Adora Belle Dearheart, who appear in the novels Going Postal and Making Money, are drawn as uncannily similar characters to Jim Di Griz and Angelina. Moist is a con-man and bunco-artist par excellence, who is drawn into working on the side of the angels by the uber-Inskipp character of Lord Vetinari. Sent out to defeat a far more unscrupulous criminal for the good of all involved, this light-hearted Rat meets Adora belle, a woman with clear anger-management issues who is driven by a sense of furious bitter resentment at the things that have happened to her and her family in life.
In later books, will we see Mosit and Adorah as parents of twins? 92.25.179.186 (talk) 08:49, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character homage 

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