Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison (n. 12 martie 1925, Stamford^⁠(d), Connecticut, SUA – d. 15 august 2012, Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit) a fost un autor american de literatură științifico-fantastică cel mai bine cunoscut pentru personajul Stainless Steel Rat și pentru romanul său Make Room! Make Room! (1966), după care s-a realizat filmul Soylent Green (1973). Împreună cu Brian Aldiss a fost președinte al Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Harry Harrison
Harrison la cea de-a 63-a Conferință mondială de SF în Glasgow, august 2005
Date personale
Nume la naștere	Henry Maxwell Dempsey
Născut	12 martie 1925[1][2][3][4][5] Stamford⁠(d), Connecticut, SUA
Decedat	15 august 2012 (87 de ani)[6][5][2][3][4] Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Căsătorit cu	Evelyn Harrison (div. 1951) Joan Merkler Harrison (1954–2002, moartea ei)
Copii	2
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Religie	ateism
Ocupație	Scriitor, ilustrator
Limbi vorbite	Esperanto limba engleză[2][7]
Activitatea literară
Activ ca scriitor	1951–2010
Specie literară	Științifico-fantastic, satiră
Opere semnificative	Make Room! Make Room![*][[Make Room! Make Room! |​]]
Note
Premii	Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award[*][[Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (award)|​]][8] Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame[*]​ Inkpot Award[*][[Inkpot Award (comics award)|​]][9] Locus Award for Best Original Anthology[*][[Locus Award for Best Original Anthology (discontinued literary award by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus (1972-1975))|​]][10]
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Brian Aldiss l-a numit „coleg și un prieten de familie”.^[11] Prietenul său, Michael Carroll, a spus: „Imaginați-vă Pirații din Caraibe sau Indiana Jones și căutătorii arcei pierdute că ar fi romane științifico-fictive. Sunt aventuri înfricoșătoare și totoadată sunt povestiri din inimă”.^[12]

Opere (selecție)

Romane

Tabelul de mai jos poate fi sortat pentru a arăta romanele lui Harrison în ordine cronologică sau în ordine alfabetică după titlu, autor sau serie.

An	Titlu	Autor	Serie	Note
1960	Deathworld	Harry Harrison	Deathworld
1961	The Stainless Steel Rat	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1962	Planet of the Damned	Harry Harrison	Brion Brandd	Variantă de titlu: Sense of Obligation (1967); serializat sub această variantă de titlu în 1961.
1964	Vendetta for the Saint	Leslie Charteris		Ghostwritten by Harrison, credited to Leslie Charteris, and based upon Charteris's mystery series The Saint.
1964	Deathworld 2	Harry Harrison	Deathworld	Originally serialised as The Ethical Engineer
1965	Plague from Space	Harry Harrison		Expanded and reissued as The Jupiter Plague (1982)
1965	Bill, the Galactic Hero	Harry Harrison	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1966	Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison		Basis for the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston
1967	The Technicolor Time Machine	Harry Harrison
1968	Deathworld 3	Harry Harrison	Deathworld	Originally serialised in 1968 as The Horse Barbarians)
1969	Captive Universe	Harry Harrison
1970	The Daleth Effect	Harry Harrison		Variant title: In Our Hands, the Stars, 1970. Serialised 1969-70 under this variant title.
1970	The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1970	Spaceship Medic	Harry Harrison
1972	Tunnel Through the Deeps	Harry Harrison		Variant title: A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
1972	Montezuma's Revenge	Harry Harrison	Tony Hawkin
1972	The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1972	Stonehenge	Harry Harrison and Leon Stover		This version was heavily cut from the manuscript; 1983 edition, titled Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died, restores the full original text.
1973	Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers	Harry Harrison
1974	Queen Victoria's Revenge	Harry Harrison	Tony Hawkin
1975	The California Iceberg	Harry Harrison
1976	Skyfall	Harry Harrison
1977	The Lifeship	Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson		Variant title: Lifeboat
1978	The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1980	Homeworld	Harry Harrison	To the Stars
1981	Wheelworld	Harry Harrison	To the Stars
1981	Starworld	Harry Harrison	To the Stars
1981	Planet of No Return	Harry Harrison	Brion Brandd
1982	Invasion: Earth	Harry Harrison
1982	The Stainless Steel Rat for President	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1982	The QEII is Missing	Harry Harrison
1983	A Rebel In Time	Harry Harrison
1984	West of Eden	Harry Harrison	Eden
1985	A Stainless Steel Rat is Born	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1986	Winter in Eden	Harry Harrison	Eden
1987	The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1988	Return to Eden	Harry Harrison	Eden
1989	Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves	Harry Harrison	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1990	Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains	Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1991	Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure	Harry Harrison and David Bischoff	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1991	Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires	Harry Harrison and Jack C. Haldeman II	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1991	Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars	Harry Harrison and David Bischoff	Bill, the Galactic Hero	Variant title: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Hippies from Hell
1991	Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure	Harry Harrison and David Harris	Bill, the Galactic Hero
1992	The Turing Option	Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
1993	The Hammer and the Cross	Harry Harrison and John Holm	The Hammer and the Cross	"John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey.
1994	The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1994[13]	One King's Way	Harry Harrison and John Holm	The Hammer and the Cross	"John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey.
1996	The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
1997	King and Emperor	Harry Harrison and John Holm	The Hammer and the Cross	"John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey.
1998	Stars and Stripes Forever	Harry Harrison	Stars and Stripes
1998	Return to Deathworld	Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis	Deathworld	Only published in Russian and Lithuanian.
1998	Deathworld vs. Filibusters	Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis	Deathworld	Only published in Russian and Lithuanian.
1999	The Creatures from Hell	Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis	Deathworld	Only published in Russian and Lithuanian.
1999	The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat
2000	Stars and Stripes in Peril	Harry Harrison	Stars and Stripes
2001	Deathworld 7	Harry Harrison and Mikhail Ahmanov	Deathworld	Only published in Russian and Lithuanian.
2002	Stars and Stripes Triumphant	Harry Harrison	Stars and Stripes
2010	The Stainless Steel Rat Returns	Harry Harrison	The Stainless Steel Rat