![]() ![]() He had to make his way through the women who already filled the steps of the building, walking carefully so that he didn’t step on the children who were playing below. The book is set in 1999, when unrestricted population growth has led to a population of 35 million in New York City.Īfter the damp hallway the heat of Twenty-fifth Street hit him in a musty wave, a stifling miasma compounded of decay, dirt and unwashed humanity. Make Room! Make Room! is best known as the inspiration for the 1973 film Soylent Green, though the central revelation of the film is not in the book, which is a more straightforward environmental clarion call. By these standards, the title of his 1966 dystopian novel is positively restrained. ![]() ![]() He is also the author of a re-interpretation of Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk, called Bill the Galactic Hero. (Dan: I told you I would.) That recommendation, from a teenage Douglas Adams fan, was for Harrison’s comic sci-fi Stainless Steel Rat books, which I see now stretches to a dozen volumes, including titles like The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues. Harry Harrison was first recommended to me by a friend in school, over 20 years ago. ![]()
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