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Aug 18, 2012 · So wrote Harry Harrison in a 1990 essay that described science fiction, the genre in which he wrote more than 60 novels, as “rubbish.” Some critics thought his work helped prove the point.
Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) [2] 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 ...
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- Writer, illustrator
- American, Irish
- Evelyn Harrison (div. 1951), Joan Merkler Harrison (1954–2002, her death)
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Wed 15 Aug 2012 08.28 EDT. Harry Harrison, who has died aged 87, was a writer from the world of American comics and science-fiction magazines of the 1950s. An amazingly prolific author, who ...
Harrison was born as Henry Maxwell Dempsey on March 12, 1925, in Stamford, Connecticut. Soon after his birth, his parents changed the family name as Harrison. Even author Harrison was not aware of this fact until he reached the age of 30. Harrison’s father, Leo Dempsey, belongs to the Irish descent and was a painter by profession.
Aug 24, 2012 · A literary maverick with a prodigious output, Harry Harrison, who has died aged 87, was a published writer for 60 years. To his chosen field of science fiction, he brought humour, irreverence and ...
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat. (1985) Description / Buy at Amazon. Harry Harrison was a well-established American author, who was born on March 12, 1925. He was widely known for the protagonist, Stainless Steel Rat. The author’s novel, Make Room which was published in the year 1966, was used to develop a motion picture known as Soylent ...
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 ...
