UNITED STATES AUTHOR · SCIENCE FICTION · FICTION
Harry Harrison
Also known as: Hank Dempsey, harrison-harry
Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved into editing pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic. In 1954 he married, and their first child was born in 1955. In 1956 he became a full-time writer, and began working on his first book in addition to writing for other publications such as The Saint syndicated comic strips. Over the next decade he and his family moved to several places, including Mexico, England, Italy, back to New York for the birth of their second child in 1959, to Denmark for seven years, back to England in 1965, San Diego in 1967, and finally Ireland in 1975 where they settled. Harrison produced over 60 books, occasionally in collaboration with other well-known writers such as Gordon R. Dickson.
Most acclaimed
Planet of the Damned
Man always expands his horizons, when Earth is full, man will venture out to space and colonize other worlds. Governments fail and contact with colonies is lost - leaving them to fend for themselves. When government is stabilized after many centuries and exploration along with searches for the old colonies is made. Mutations are likely in such circumstances and this is one of the themes of this story - with unexpected twists, turns and the likely destruction of a planet ruled by madmen because they are not only a threat to themselves, but to others as they have cobalt bombs and every intention of using them on a neighboring world. Fast paced and full of action makes this a very good read.
Make Room! Make Room!
A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, loot and trample for lentil 'steaks' and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the sky.
Captive universe
Der Kampf des Wahrheitssuchers Sie nennen sich Azteken. Grausame Priester beherrschen sie, und strikte Tabus verhindern, daß sie das Felstal, in dem sie leben, jemals verlassen. Der junge Chimal ist der einzige seines Stammes, der nicht gewillt ist, sich an die jahrhundertealten Regeln und Gesetze zu halten. Als Chimal sich auflehnt, wird er wegen Häresie zum Tode verurteilt. Doch ihm gelingt die Flucht aus dem Tal. Chimal lernt nun die schreckliche Wahrheit kennen, daß die Welt der Azteken nichts anderes ist, als ein Projekt des Großen Planers.