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Make Room! It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine. Set in a future August 1999 , the novel explores trends in the proportion of world resources used by the United States and other countries compared to population growth, depicting a world where the global population is seven billion people, plagued with overcrowding, resource ...
- Harry Harrison
- 216
- 1966
- November 2, 1966
Visiting the crime scene, Andy meets Shirl Greene, O’Brien’s mistress. Unwilling to have her evicted, the detective arranges for her to remain temporarily in the apartment. A romance develops ...
3.72. 8,694 ratings811 reviews. First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system—operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence—and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future.
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this room for over seven years. He yawned and the odd sensation slipped away while he groped for the watch that he always put on the chair next to the bed, then he yawned again as he blinked at the hands mistily seen behind the scratched crystal. Seven … seven o’clock in the morning, and there was a little number 9 in the middle of the ...
Macmillan, 2008 - Fiction - 288 pages. The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and —if they're lucky—the odd starving rat. In a New York City...
His girlfriend Shirl used to live with a local labor-boss and has eaten steak--beef, not dog. Every morning when Andy steps over the bodies of the families who sleep in the street outside his...
Jul 1, 2010 · A detective hunts down a killer in a dystopian, overpopulated NYC in this classic science fiction novel that inspired the film Soylent Green. Originally published in 1966, Make Room!
