Books Update: Re-Working Our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Harry Harrison Part 2
*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 2 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 2 follows:
PICTURED: BY HARRY HARRISON
PRIME NUMBER Sphere 1987 7th UK PB GD £3
SKYFALL Corgi 1977 1st UK PB VG £3
THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT Sphere 1974 2nd UK PB thus VG £3
STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS Orbit 1976 1st UK PB VG £3
WAR WITH THE ROBOTS Pyramid 1962 1st US PB VG £3
(As Editor) :
SF: AUTHOR’S CHOICE Berkley 1968 1st US PB VG £5
(As Editor with BRIAN ALDISS) :
THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NO 7 Sphere 1975 1st UK PB GD £5
(With Gordon R Dickson):
LIFEBOAT Orbit 1985 UK PB VG/FN £3