“Heaven has to make room, make room for Harry Harrison,” wrote Books will be publishing Harrison’s memoir in December, according to a spokesperson for the publisher. “Thank you for sharing your mind, kind sir!” wrote on Twitter. Tributes to Harrison poured in on Twitter after his death was announced. Harrison was the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Soylent Green was one of the few big-budget science-fiction films made in the pre-science-fiction blockbuster era. Harrison’s death comes after notable science fiction author Ray Bradbury passed away in June. The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green. “Harry was one of those who you thought would go on forever like a wind-up toy,” Ellison told CNN. On learning of his death, fiction author Harlan Ellison said, “It’s a day without stars in it.”Įllison, who says he knew Harrison since 1952, said the author was one of the funniest guys who ever lived. In the year 2022, people rely on Soylent Green, a strange foodstuff, in order to survive. “He believed science fiction was important, that it caused people to think about our world and what it could become,” Tor Books’ publisher Tom Doherty wrote in a blog post. He is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Harrison started his career as an illustrator before switching to writing. Harrison also was the main writer for the “Flash Gordon” comic strip during the 1950s and ’60s, according to his publisher, Tor Books. He was 87.īorn in 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison was best known for his 12 novels about the futuristic character “Slippery Jim” DeGriz, also known as the Stainless Steel Rat. Popular science-fiction author Harry Harrison, whose book “Make Room! Make Room!” was the basis for the 1973 film “Soylent Green,” about a futuristic society and its fictional food, has died, his publisher said Wednesday.
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