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Harry Harrison


Born
in Stamford, Connecticut, The United States
March 12, 1925

Died
August 15, 2012

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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

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Harry Harrison Centenary – Part 12: Men’s Adventure Magazines 2

Cover of the January 1956 issue of Men magazine


Men Vol.5, No.1, January 1956, edited by Noah Sarlat. Cover painting by Frank Soltesz for the story ‘The “Thing” on the Bottom’ by Joseph Santio. Image from PulpCovers.com


Here is one of Harry Harrison’s earliest men’s adventure articles – there were three published in January 1956. This one closely follows the ‘formula’ that I referred to in the last post. I’m not sure if Hubert Pritchard collabor

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Quotes by Harry Harrison  (?)
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“Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.”
Harry Harrison

“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”
Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat

“One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.”
Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2014, 333 pages, average GR rating 4.06
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
 
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
2012, 320 pages, average GR rating 3.88
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
 
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The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
2012, 320 pages, average GR rating 3.88
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Dark Recollections by Chris Philbrook
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