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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction (SF) author, best known 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). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said, "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart." Novelist Christopher Priest wrote in an obituary,
Harrison was an extremely popular figure in the SF world, renowned for being amiable, outspoken and endlessly amusing. His quickfire, machine-gun delivery of words was a delight to hear, and a reward to unravel: he was funny and self-aware, he enjoyed reporting the follies of others, he distrusted generals, prime ministers and tax officials with sardonic and cruel wit, and above all he made plain his acute intelligence and astonishing range of moral, ethical and literary sensibilities.
On learning of his death, Harlan Ellison said, "It's a day without stars in it."
Before becoming an editor and writer, Harrison started in the science fiction field as an illustrator, notably with EC Comics' two science fiction comic book series, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. In these and other comic book stories, he most often worked with Wally Wood. Wood usually inked over Harrison's layouts, and the two freelanced for several publishers and genres, including westerns and horror comics. He and Wood split up their partnership in 1950 and went their separate ways. Harrison used house pen names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit magazines and published other fiction under the pen names Felix Boyd and Hank Dempsey (see Personal Life below). Harrison ghostwrote Vendetta for the Saint, one of the long-running series of novels featuring Leslie Charteris' character, The Saint. Harrison also wrote for syndicated comic strips, writing several stories for the character Rick Random.
His first short story, "Rock Diver", was published in the February 1951 issue of Worlds Beyond, edited by Damon Knight; the magazine had previously published his illustrations. While in New York, he socialized at the Hydra Club, an organization of New York's science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, whose work he would parody in Bill, the Galactic Hero and its sequels. In the early 1950s, the Hydra Club included such luminaries as Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, and Theodore Sturgeon.
Harrison was born as Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. His father, Henry Leo Dempsey, a printer who was partly of Irish descent, changed his name to Harrison soon after Harry was born. Harry did not know this himself until he was 30 years old, at which point he changed his name to Harry Max Harrison in court. His mother, Ria H. (Kirjassoff), was Russian Jewish. She had been born in Riga, Latvia, but she grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Incidentally, her brother, Max David Kirjassoff (1888-1923), had been an American consul in Japan, but he died along with his wife Alice during the huge earthquake in Yokohama and Tokyo in 1923.
Harrison resided in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Italy, Denmark, and Ireland. He was an advocate of Esperanto (which he learned, according to Christopher Priest, out of boredom during military service). The language often appears in his novels, particularly in his Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld series, and had been the honorary president of the Esperanto Association of Ireland, as well as holding memberships in other Esperanto organizations such as Esperanto-USA (formerly the "Esperanto League for North America" , of which he was an honorary member, and the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association), of whose Honorary Patrons' Committee he was a member.
After finishing Forest Hills High School in 1943, Harrison was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a gunsight technician and as a gunnery instructor. Priest adds that he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets. "But overall the army experience vested in him a hatred of the military that was to serve him well as a writer later on." Then he returned to civilian life in the United States.
He enrolled in Hunter College in New York in 1946 and later ran a studio selling illustrations to comics and science fiction magazines.
Harrison married Evelyn Harrison, whom he included in a cartoon he drew of the Hydra Club in 1950. They divorced in 1951, and Evelyn married the science fiction writer Lester del Rey shortly afterwards.
Harrison married Joan Merkler Harrison in 1954 in New York City; their marriage lasted until her death of cancer in 2002. They had two children, Todd (born in 1955) and Moira (born in 1959), to whom he dedicated his novel Make Room! Make Room!.
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Stainless Steel Rat (Publication Order) series
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat For President (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Visions (read by John Polk)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Joins The Circus (read by Phil Gigante)
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (read by Phil Gigante)
Bill, the Galactic Hero series / with with Robert Sheckley, David Bischoff, Jack C. Haldeman II, David Harris
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of The Robot Slaves (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Bottled Brains (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Tasteless Pleasure (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Zombie Vampires (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Ten Thousand Bars (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure (read by Christian Rummel)
West of Eden series
Harry Harrison - West Of Eden (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Winter In Eden (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Return To Eden (read by Christian Rummel)
To the Stars series
Harry Harrison - Homeworld (read by Charles Carr)
Harry Harrison - Wheelworld (read by Charles Carr)
Harry Harrison - Starworld (read by Charles Carr)
Hammer and the Cross series / with John Holm
Harry Harrison - The Hammer And The Cross (read by Bruce Huntey)
Harry Harrison - One King's Way (read by Bruce Huntey)
Harry Harrison - King And Emperor (read by Bruce Huntey)
Brion Brandd series book 1
Harry Harrison - Planet Of The Damned (read by Jim Roberts)
Deathworld series
Harry Harrison - Deathworld (read by Christian Rummel)
Harry Harrison - Deathworld 2: The Ethical Engineer (read by Jim Roberts)
Other
Harry Harrison - Rebel In Time (read by Simon Vance)
Harry Harrison - Arm Of The Law (read by Phil Chenevert)
Harry Harrison - The K-Factor (read by Mike Vendetti)
Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room! (read by Eric Michael Summerer)
Harry Harrison - Selected Sci-Fi Stories (read by Jim Roberts)
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Stainless Steel Rat series
http://rapidgator.net/file/e13e17e54d24fc0b8feeff9a70143b8f/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cc1481c3e20d31af82dd9494826e3c37/The_Stainless_Steel_Rats_Revenge.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7815e23a279a83ebc172c6d3662b9138/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Saves_The_World.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9a5768a3fa20e1d1107d07b84cadf479/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Wants_You.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3a55f0222265a097c1e8de7ffae17b71/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_For_President.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/25e39768901005b87502bb10ecabf990/A_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Is_Born.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a09f34984288909e24639d3cded630e7/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Gets_Drafted.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3ecd967c676b0d925e67d705c3924470/Stainless_Steel_Visions.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1314dff16c768cd5b2a7958e099a6a5c/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Sings_The_Blues.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c0f53a3ddee123bfd7a43209779228b7/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Goes_To_Hell.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a721b586dd23aeac04664dc0389bc8df/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Joins_The_Circus.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/62caa39f398e31d2a0484af70d0c809b/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Returns.rar.html
Bill, the Galactic Hero series
http://rapidgator.net/file/227f2f1dc34214c783e9539b83edeabb/The_Planet_Of_The_Robot_Slaves.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1f1a2a14e2ceb7f60c6f81762ad9ce6b/The_Planet_Of_Bottled_Brains.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bdcda6ae97873ac9ac66041d8eaba926/The_Planet_Of_Tasteless_Pleasure.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e7935771f606e515f61d19dcbd77550b/The_Planet_Of_Zombie_Vampires.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3e86e0f062aeb0a8bde088d5b3fb8150/The_Planet_Of_Ten_Thousand_Bars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/71d726c3f5e76bbe217e410d8b8c67f1/The_Final_Incoherent_Adventure.rar.html
West of Eden series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d890da82eea6f28400343b049ff48d4e/West_Of_Eden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4290ff1feab78e15538d241c8e6bd65c/Winter_In_Eden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0a55e8bab8d2189ed177f361ec20df8c/Return_To_Eden.rar.html
To the Stars series
http://rapidgator.net/file/b4d8baf259725749113c5d7eb298f0c7/Homeworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d21e55d5f64ddd9a828be63d5d976b24/Wheelworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4ce6b0cd7c4b810cbc900876f00d0aa2/Starworld.rar.html
Hammer and the Cross series
http://rapidgator.net/file/b69bb8cc904deeab6ae6f8af6e4f2ae3/The_Hammer_And_The_Cross.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a5cd303195919fba7e1ab2573fd18c4d/One_Kings_Way.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3a1ccff58f5e02d8d7dc27fe9d44aaab/King_And_Emperor.rar.html
Brion Brandd series
http://rapidgator.net/file/4f0ec2125143d0faef023e1776119ae9/Planet_Of_The_Dammed.rar.html
Deathworld series
http://rapidgator.net/file/aa20dd84dc023b2acf5f16e8e0a9ed6e/Deathworld_1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9ed2692d2b9edf5fb71321079ad1d228/Deathworld_2.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/a27a46265d96dcd03132a64f0b9b2f96/Rebel_In_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/178a164108a7110881430a35de531ce9/Arm_Of_The_Law.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cad56e92703895bea1c344c2c0c55e9f/The_K_Factor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5ab90fdf4400eaf921797dc04e32c967/Make_Room_Make_Room.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/036c670bc302efeca219801344e8f2a5/Selected_Sci_Fi_Stories.rar.html |
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