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Harry Harrison


Born
in Stamford, Connecticut, The United States
March 12, 1925

Died
August 15, 2012

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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

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Harry Harrison Centenary – Part 10: Harry the Artist Part 3: Unpublished and Unidentified Artwork

For this last post about Harry Harrison’s work as a professional artist, I have some images that I haven’t been able to identify. I scanned these from pieces in Harry’s portfolio – they were either original artwork or photographic copies.

The first illustration is science fiction but the rest are fantasy/horror in a fairly cartoony style. I have no idea where any of these pieces were published, or

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Average rating: 3.86 · 156,167 ratings · 7,245 reviews · 1,170 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Stainless Steel Rat (St...

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The Adventures of the Stain...

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Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)

3.93 avg rating — 9,252 ratings — published 1960 — 39 editions
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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Bo...

3.97 avg rating — 9,080 ratings — published 1985
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Make Room! Make Room!

3.71 avg rating — 9,479 ratings — published 1966 — 92 editions
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The Stainless Steel Rat Wan...

3.96 avg rating — 7,004 ratings — published 1978 — 30 editions
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The Stainless Steel Rat's R...

3.96 avg rating — 6,253 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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The Stainless Steel Rat Sav...

3.94 avg rating — 6,220 ratings — published 1971
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The Stainless Steel Rat Get...

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Bill, The Galactic Hero (Bi...

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“Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.”
Harry Harrison

“One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.”
Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”
Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat

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