Co-written with Gordon R. Dickson

According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (ed. Peter Nicholls), Harrison was "filmed at a working lunch with (John W.) Campbell and Gordon R. Dickson which resulted in the Harrison-Dickson collaborative novel Lifeboat.

Giles Steel Ashad is a crew member on a galactic liner which is sabotaged by a bomb. The passengers and crew are evacuated and Ashad finds himself in a small 'lifeboat' with a group of human slaves, and two alien crewmen. The aliens are the only ones who can pilot the ship, but they have lost the will to live. Ashad must find solutions to this and any other problems which arise.

Analog, illustrated by Kelly Freas. February 1975, p.12-57. Cover by Kelly Freas; March, p.122-167; April, p.102-151.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976, 181pp., ISBN: 0-06-011764-8, hbk. Jacket: Richard Lomonaco.

as: Kurs Auf 20B-40. Munich: Goldmann, 1976, 159pp., ISBN: 3-442-23220-1. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Cover: Jürgen F. Rogner. [German]

as: Lifeboat. London: Orbit, January 1977, 181pp., ISBN: 0-8600-7930-9, pbk. Reprinted 1985 (ISBN: 0-7088-8168-8); 23rd May 1991.

New York: Pocket Books, June 1977, 173pp., ISBN: 0-671-81044-3, pbk. Cover: Ed Soyka. Reprinted (ISBN: 0-671-42427-0).

New York: Timescape, June 1981, 173pp., ISBN: 4242-7, pbk. Cover: Barlowe.

as: Astroincendio Doloso, in: Urania #727, 17th July 1977. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Translated by Maria Benedetta de Castiglione. [Italian]

as: Lifeboat. London: Dobson, April 1978, 192pp., ISBN: 0-234-72018-2, hbk. Jacket: Richard Weaver.

as: Reddings Schip. Amsterdam: Centipress SF, ISBN: 90-305-0246-0, 1981. Translated by Ruud Bal. [Dutch]

New York: Baen, September 1985, 251p., ISBN: 0-671-55981-8, pbk. Reprinted 1988 (ISBN: 55939-7).

London: Severn House, July 1997, 173pp., ISBN: 0-7278-5245-0, hbk.

Moscow: (Eksmo), 1999, 544pp., ISBN: 5-04-002741-9. [Russian]

Booklist, 1st September 1976. Review by D. Miller.

Chicago Daily News Panorama, 22nd May 1976. Review by D. Miller.

Chicago Daily News Panorama, 26th June 1976. Review by D. Miller.

Foundation #13, May 1978. Review by Richard McKinney

Library Journal, July 1976. Review by M. Cross

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. February 1977. Review by John Clute. Reprinted in Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966-1986. Seattle: Serconia Press, 1988, p.27-29.

Publishers Weekly, 5th April 1976.

School Library Journal, December 1976. Review by L. Birlem

The Times Literary Supplement, 16th June 1978, p.663a. Review "The Full Repertoire," by John H. Mole.
"[The authors] have collaborated for the first time ... and once can only hope it is for the last. They appear to have struggled to find a common denominator for their respective talents and to have seized in desperation on the lowest."