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Harry Harrison

  • Harry Max Harrison
  • Henry Maxwell Dempsey
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Harrison, Harry
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Date of birth
1925-03-12
Place of birth
Stamford
Date of death
2012-08-15
Place of death
United Kingdom

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Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said of Harrison's work: "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart." Novelist Christopher Priest wrote in an obituary

Harrison was an extremely popular figure in the SF world, renowned for being amiable, outspoken and endlessly amusing. His quickfire, machine-gun delivery of words was a delight to hear, and a reward to unravel: he was funny and self-aware, he enjoyed reporting the follies of others, he distrusted generals, prime ministers and tax officials with sardonic and cruel wit, and above all he made plain his acute intelligence and astonishing range of moral, ethical and literary sensibilities.

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US SF writer.

Series:
Bill, the Galactic Hero
Brion Brandd
Deathworld
Eden
Matter Transmitter
Stars and Stripes
The Hammer and the Cross
The Stainless Steel Rat
To the Stars
Tony Hawkin

Last modified: 2023-03-14 (revision #126672)

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Goodreads Author ID
16147
ISNI
0000 0001 2141 3232
0000 0003 6864 4868
0000 0003 6864 485X
LibraryThing Author
harrisonharry
MusicBrainz Artist ID
d489ad81-2229-4c14-8d73-de7ccf99d765
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL27278A
VIAF
80169724
Wikidata ID
Q489193

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