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Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison

Author Biography & Works

Harry Max Harrison 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.

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Books by Harry Harrison

The Jupiter Legacy

The Jupiter Legacy

A.K.A. The Plague From Space or The Jupiter Plague. The explorer ship Pericles returns from Jupiter. The single surviving crewman is infected with a deadly plague that has the potential...

A Rebel In Time

A Rebel In Time

Colonel McCulloch is a good old-fashioned white racist. Agent Troy Harmon, who is black, is supposed to find out what's going on when McCulloch becomes a murder suspect. McCulloch is...

War With The Robots

War With The Robots

Harrison's novels were described by his friend, Irish author Michael Carroll, as rip roaring adventures with a lot of heart, comparing them to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pirates...

Bill, The Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure!

Bill, The Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure!

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With so much extravagant invention as its stock in trade, an awful lot of space opera is unintentionally funny. But it's surprising that there is so little intentionally comic space...

Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers

Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers

This book is a bit of a satire, but it is also an epic adventure that features a ring world.

A Stainless Steel Rat

A Stainless Steel Rat

(Stainless Steel Rat) Start here

A series of books about a clever, young man who is also a criminal with a heart of gold and wanted on several planets.

Captive Universe

Captive Universe

The crew has undergone cultural engineering and become medieval monks and Aztec peasants.

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