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Harry Harrison, 1925-2012


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Science fiction author Harry Harrison passed away earlier today at the age of 87. He was never quite as well-known as Asimov or Heinlein, but he still wrote more than 50 novels, including The Stainless Steel Rat series, the Deathworld series, and the Bill the Galactic Hero series. He also wrote Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into a movie as Soylent Green. Harrison’s works were both fun and funny, while Bill the Galactic Hero was a very direct parody of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (so, yeah, the movie wasn’t the first) and those types of gung-ho sci-fi heroes. Harrison’s last book — a Stainless Steel Rat novel — was published in 2010, and he was writing up until his death.