Books Update: Re-Working Our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Harry Harrison Part 1
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category for Part 1 of the works of Harry Harrison. A very prolific writer, Harrison was an American long resident in both Ireland and the UK. His most famous works are probably the Stainless Steel Rat novels (a series of 11 books), the novel of overpopulation Make Room, Make Room (the basis of the film Soylent Green) and Deathworld (which started out being serialised in the UK Eagle comic and ended up with later volumes co-written with Eastern European authors and only published there; Harrison was apparently something of a cultural icon in Russia). Although known for his satire and humour, Harrison was equally adept at serious stuff. Before his writing career, Harrison was a comics illustrator for EC comics, where he worked on their science fiction titles with Wally Wood. Later he became a close friend of Brian Aldiss, and they jointly produced a series of SF anthologies under the title The Year’s Best Science Fiction. We’ve split our Harrison inventory into two parts for up to date presentation. Part 1 follows:
PICTURED: ALL BY HARRY HARRISON
CAPTIVE UNIVERSE Sphere 1972 1st UK PB VG/FN £5
DEATHWORLD 2 Sphere 1974 2nd UK PB GD £3
DEATHWORLD 2 Sphere 1977 3rd UK PB VG £3
DEATHWORLD 3 Sphere 1981 5th UK PB VF £3
THE JUPITER LEGACY Sphere 1972 1st UK PB GD/VG £3
PLANET OF NO RETURN Sphere 1985 3rd UK PB VG £3
PLANET OF THE DAMNED Bantam 1962 1st US PB VG £3