Harry Harrison
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 March 1925
- Died
- 15 August 2012
- Works
- 314
Top works
- Histoires de la Fin des Temps
- Giant Science-Fiction Six-Pack
- Countdown mit Arno Schmidt
- Arm of the Law
- Arm of the Law
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Film & TV
Writing · Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Known for
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
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Harry Harrison (born March 12, 1925), an American and Irish science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He is also (with Brian Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Harry+Harrison">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,355x
- Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions
· 1992 · cited 14,770x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,737x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,752x
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Key facts
- Born
- Henry Maxwell Dempsey , ( 1925-03-12 ) March 12, 1925, Stamford, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- August 15, 2012 (2012-08-15) (aged 87), Brighton , England
- Occupation
- Writer, illustrator
- Nationality
- American, Irish
- Period
- 1951–2010
- Genre
- Science fiction , satire
- Notable awards
- Inkpot Award (2004)
- Spouse
- Evelyn Harrison (div. 1951), Joan Merkler Harrison (1954–2002, her death)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 12 March 1925
- Died
- 15 August 2012
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Harry
- Family name
- Harrison
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Stamford
- Place of death
- Brighton
- Occupation
- draftsperson
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) 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 Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said of Harrison's work: "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
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