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Harry Harrison

Harry Maxwell Harrison (born March 12, 1925) is an American science fiction author who has lived in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Denmark and Italy. He currently lives in Dublin, and is Honorary President of the Esperanto Association of Ireland.

Harrison started working in the science fiction field as an illustrator before becoming an editor. Harrison is now much better known for his writing, particularly his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the novels Stainless Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic Hero.

Not all of Harrison's writing is comic, though. He has written many stories on serious themes, of which by far the best known is the novella Make Room! Make Room! which was turned into the classic SF film Soylent Green.

Partial Bibliography

Novellas

• Make Room! Make Room! (1963) Basis for the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston.

Novels

• Planet of the Damned (1962) (first published as Sense of Obligation)
• The Jupiter Legacy (1965) (first published as Plague from Space)
• Bill, the Galactic Hero
• Technicolor Time Machine (1967)
• War with the Robots (1967) (short stories)
• In Our Hands the Stars (1970)
• Prime Number (1970) (short stories)
• One Step from Earth 1970) (short stories)
• Tunnel Through the Deeps (1972)
• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973)
• Skyfall (1976)
• Lifeboat (1977) (with Gordon R. Dickson)
• Planet of No Return (1981)
• The Turing Option (1992) (with Marvin Minsky)
• Galactic Dreams (1994) (short stories)

Deathworld series

• Deathworld 1 (1960)
• Deathworld 2 (1964) (first published as The Ethical Engineer)
• Deathworld 3 (1968)

The Stainless Steel Rat series

1. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
2. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970)
3. The Stainless Steel Saves the World (1972)
4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (1978)
5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
6. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985)
7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
8. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1995)
9. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1998)
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (2000)

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• The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (First three books anthology, 1978)

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Eden series

• West of Eden (1984)
• Winter in Eden (1986)
• Return to Eden (1989)

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The Hammer and the Cross series

• The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
• One King's Way (1995)
• Harry Harrison is also a New York radio personality.