Harry Harrison (writer)
Harry Harrison | |
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Harrison at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 | |
Born |
Henry Maxwell Dempsey March 12, 1925 Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
Died |
August 15, 2012 87) Brighton, England, United Kingdom | (aged
Occupation | Writer, illustrator |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1951–2010 |
Genre | Science fiction, satire |
Spouse |
Evelyn Harrison, div. 1951 Joan Merkler Harrison (1954–2002, her death) |
Children | Todd Harrison and Moira Harrison |
Website | |
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Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend".[1] His friend Michael Carroll said, "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart."[2] Novelist Christopher Priest wrote in an obituary,
Harrison was an extremely popular figure in the SF world, renowned for being amiable, outspoken and endlessly amusing. His quickfire, machine-gun delivery of words was a delight to hear, and a reward to unravel: he was funny and self-aware, he enjoyed reporting the follies of others, he distrusted generals, prime ministers and tax officials with sardonic and cruel wit, and above all he made plain his acute intelligence and astonishing range of moral, ethical and literary sensibilities.[3]
Career
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Before becoming an editor and writer, Harrison started in the science fiction field as an illustrator, notably with EC Comics' two science fiction comic book series, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. In these and other comic book stories, he most often worked with Wally Wood. Wood usually inked over Harrison's layouts, and the two freelanced for several publishers and genres, including westerns and horror comics. He and Wood split up their partnership in 1950 and went their separate ways. Harrison used house pen names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit magazines and published other fiction under the pen names Felix Boyd and Hank Dempsey[4] (see Personal Life below). Harrison ghostwrote Vendetta for the Saint, one of the long-running series of novels featuring Leslie Charteris' character, The Saint. Harrison also wrote for syndicated comic strips, writing several stories for the character Rick Random.
His first short story, "Rock Diver", was published in the February 1951 issue of Worlds Beyond, edited by Damon Knight;[5] the magazine had previously published his illustrations. While in New York, he socialized at the Hydra Club, an organization of New York's science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, whose work he would parody in Bill, the Galactic Hero and its sequels.[6] In the early 1950s, the Hydra Club included writers such as Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, and Theodore Sturgeon.[7]
Harrison has become much better known for his later writing, particularly for his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the Stainless Steel Rat series and his novel Bill, the Galactic Hero — which satirized Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers. Priest wrote:
His most popular and best-known work is contained in fast-moving parodies, homages or even straight reconstructions of traditional space-opera adventures. He wrote several named series of these: notably the Deathworld series (three titles, starting in 1960), the Stainless Steel Rat books (12 titles, from 1961), and the sequence of books about Bill, the Galactic Hero (seven titles, from 1965). These books all present interesting contradictions: while being exactly what they might superficially seem to be, unpretentious action novels with a strong streak of humour, they are also satirical, knowing, subversive, unapologetically anti-military, anti-authority and anti-violence. Harrison wrote such novels in the idiom of the politically conservative hack writer, but in reality he had a liberal conscience and a sharp awareness of the lack of literary values in so much of the SF he was parodying.[3]
Adi Robertson agreed: "His books toed the line between science fiction adventure, humor, and satire, often with a strong anti-military bent informed by his time in the US Army Air Corps."[8]
During the 1950s and 1960s, he was the main writer of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip.[9][10] One of his Flash Gordon scripts was serialized in Comics Revue magazine. Harrison drew sketches to help the artist be more scientifically accurate, which the artist largely ignored.
Not all of Harrison's writing was comic, though. He wrote many stories on serious themes, of which by far the best known is the novel about overpopulation and consumption of the world's resources, Make Room! Make Room! (1966), which was used as a basis for the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green (though the film changed the plot and theme).
For a time Harrison was closely associated with Brian Aldiss. They collaborated on a series of anthology projects and did much in the 1970s to raise the standards of criticism in the field, including institution of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[11] Priest wrote, "In 1965 Harrison and Aldiss published the first issue (of two) of the world's first serious journal of SF criticism, SF Horizons. Together they edited many anthologies of short stories, each one illustrating the major themes of SF, and although not intended as critical apparatus the books were a way of delineating the unique material of the fantastic. As committed internationalists, the two men created World SF, an organisation of professionals intended to encourage and enhance the writing of non-anglophone SF."[3] In particular, the two edited nine volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthology series[12] as well as three volumes of the Decade series, collecting science fiction of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s respectively.[13]
In 1990, Harrison was the professional Guest of Honor at ConFiction, the 48th World SF Convention, in The Hague, Netherlands, together with Joe Haldeman and Wolfgang Jeschke.
Harrison was a writer of fairly liberal worldview. Harrison's work often juxtaposes the thinking man with the man of force, although the "Thinking Man" often needs ultimately to employ force himself.
Harrison did not win a major genre award for any specific work of fiction.[14] The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Harrison in 2004[15] and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him its 26th SFWA Grand Master in 2008 (presentation of the Damon Knight Award following in 2009).[16] He became a cult hero in Russia.[17]
Personal life
Harrison was born as Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. His father, Henry Leo Dempsey, a printer who was partly of Irish descent, changed his name to Harrison soon after Harry was born. Harry did not know this himself until he was 30 years old, at which point he changed his name to Harry Max Harrison in court.[18] His mother, Ria H. (Kirjassoff),[19] was Russian Jewish. She had been born in Riga, Latvia, but she grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia.[20][21] His mother's brother, Max David Kirjassoff (1888-1923), had been an American consul in Japan, but he died along with his wife Alice during the huge earthquake in Yokohama and Tokyo in 1923.[22][23][24][25][26]
Harrison resided in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Italy, Denmark, and Ireland.[3] He was an advocate of Esperanto (which he learned, according to Christopher Priest, out of boredom during military service). He moved to Ireland in the 1970's where he built a then state of the art home in the Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow where he lived with his family for a number of years. The language often appears in his novels, particularly in his Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld series, and he had been the honorary president of the Esperanto Association of Ireland, as well as holding memberships in other Esperanto organizations such as Esperanto-USA (formerly the "Esperanto League for North America"), of which he was an honorary member, and the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association), of whose Honorary Patrons' Committee he was a member.
After finishing Forest Hills High School in 1943, Harrison was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a gunsight technician and as a gunnery instructor. Priest adds that he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets. "But overall the army experience vested in him a hatred of the military that was to serve him well as a writer later on."[3] Then he returned to civilian life in the United States.
He enrolled in Hunter College in New York in 1946 and later ran a studio selling illustrations to comics and science fiction magazines.[1]
Harrison married Evelyn Harrison, whom he included in a cartoon he drew of the Hydra Club in 1950. They divorced in 1951,[27] and Evelyn married the science fiction writer Lester del Rey shortly afterwards.[28]
Harrison married Joan Merkler Harrison in 1954 in New York City; their marriage lasted until her death of cancer in 2002. They had two children, Todd (born in 1955) and Moira (born in 1959), to whom he dedicated his novel Make Room! Make Room!.[28]
Priest writes that Harrison made many household moves abroad:
As the market for comics began to shrink, and then expire, Harrison started writing for science-fiction magazines. The paltry financial rewards led him ... to move from New York. The chance came with what seemed at the time like a large payment from a magazine for his first full-length novel, Deathworld. He drove his family in an antiquated camper van to Mexico and remained there for a year. It was the first of many international moves, something that became characteristic. He went from Mexico to Britain, then to Italy, then to Denmark. He liked Denmark and stayed for seven years, seeing it as a perfect place to bring up his children, but eventually he realised that unless he made a conscious decision to leave, they could easily remain there for ever. The family moved back to the US, to San Diego, California, where he reckoned heating bills would be low, but by the mid-1970s he was back in the UK.[3]
After many years of moving around and raising children, too, he spent his latter years residing in Ireland. Because Harrison had an Irish grandparent, he was able to assume citizenship, and by taking advantage of the Irish scheme for writers, he enjoyed tax-free status.[3] He also kept an apartment in Brighton for his frequent visits to England. When Joan died in 2002, his British home became permanent.
Harrison's website announced his death on August 15, 2012[29][30] at his apartment in Brighton, England.
On learning of his death, Harlan Ellison said, "It's a day without stars in it."[9]
Harrison was atheist.[31]
Bibliography
Novels
Year | Title | Author Credit | Series | Notes |
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1960 | Deathworld | Harry Harrison | Deathworld | |
1961 | The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | Story later adapted as a comic strip for 2000 AD. |
1962 | Planet of the Damned | Harry Harrison | Brion Brandd | Variant title: Sense of Obligation (1967); serialized under this variant title in 1961. |
1964 | Vendetta for the Saint | Leslie Charteris | Ghostwritten by Harrison, credited to Leslie Charteris, and based upon Charteris's mystery series The Saint. | |
1964 | Deathworld 2 | Harry Harrison | Deathworld | Originally serialised as The Ethical Engineer |
1965 | Plague from Space | Harry Harrison | Expanded and reissued as The Jupiter Plague (1982) | |
1965 | Bill, the Galactic Hero | Harry Harrison | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1966 | Make Room! Make Room! | Harry Harrison | Basis for the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston | |
1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | ||
1968 | Deathworld 3 | Harry Harrison | Deathworld | Originally serialised in 1968 as The Horse Barbarians |
1969 | Captive Universe | Harry Harrison | ||
1970 | The Daleth Effect | Harry Harrison | Variant title: In Our Hands, the Stars, 1970. Serialised 1969-70 under this variant title. | |
1970 | The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1970 | Spaceship Medic | Harry Harrison | ||
1972 | Tunnel Through the Deeps | Harry Harrison | Variant title: A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! | |
1972 | Montezuma's Revenge | Harry Harrison | Tony Hawkin | |
1972 | The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | Story later adapted as a comic strip for 2000 AD. |
1972 | Stonehenge | Harry Harrison and Leon Stover | This version was heavily cut from the manuscript; 1983 edition, titled Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died, restores the full original text. | |
1973 | Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers | Harry Harrison | ||
1974 | Queen Victoria's Revenge | Harry Harrison | Tony Hawkin | |
1975 | The California Iceberg | Harry Harrison | ||
1976 | Skyfall | Harry Harrison | ||
1977 | The Lifeship | Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson | Variant title: Lifeboat | |
1978 | The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1980 | The QE2 is Missing (aka The QEII is Missing) | Harry Harrison | Non-science fiction. A political thriller about South American politics, Nazis and arms dealers set on a cruise ship.[4] | |
1980 | Homeworld | Harry Harrison | To the Stars | |
1981 | Wheelworld | Harry Harrison | To the Stars | |
1981 | Starworld | Harry Harrison | To the Stars | |
1981 | Planet of No Return | Harry Harrison | Brion Brandd | |
1982 | Invasion: Earth | Harry Harrison | ||
1982 | The Stainless Steel Rat for President | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | Story later adapted as a comic strip for 2000 AD. |
1983 | A Rebel In Time | Harry Harrison | ||
1984 | West of Eden | Harry Harrison | Eden | |
1985 | A Stainless Steel Rat is Born | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1986 | Winter in Eden | Harry Harrison | Eden | |
1987 | The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1988 | Return to Eden | Harry Harrison | Eden | |
1989 | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves | Harry Harrison | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1990 | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains | Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1991 | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure | Harry Harrison and David Bischoff | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1991 | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires | Harry Harrison and Jack C. Haldeman II | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1991 | Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars | Harry Harrison and David Bischoff | Bill, the Galactic Hero | Variant title: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Hippies from Hell |
1991 | Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure | Harry Harrison and David Harris | Bill, the Galactic Hero | |
1992 | The Turing Option | Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky | ||
1993 | The Hammer and the Cross | Harry Harrison and John Holm | The Hammer and the Cross | "John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |
1994 | The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1994[32] | One King's Way | Harry Harrison and John Holm | The Hammer and the Cross | "John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |
1996 | The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
1997 | King and Emperor | Harry Harrison and John Holm | The Hammer and the Cross | "John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |
1998 | Stars and Stripes Forever | Harry Harrison | Stars and Stripes | |
1998 | Return to Deathworld | Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis | Deathworld | Only published in Russian, Lithuanian and Polish. |
1998 | Deathworld vs. Filibusters | Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis | Deathworld | Only published in Russian, Lithuanian and Polish. |
1999 | The Creatures from Hell | Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis | Deathworld | Only published in Russian, Lithuanian and Polish. |
1999 | The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
2000 | Stars and Stripes in Peril | Harry Harrison | Stars and Stripes | |
2001 | Deathworld 7 | Harry Harrison and Mikhail Ahmanov | Deathworld | Only published in Russian and Lithuanian. |
2002 | Stars and Stripes Triumphant | Harry Harrison | Stars and Stripes | |
2010 | The Stainless Steel Rat Returns | Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat |
Novellas
- The Man from P.I.G. and The Man from R.O.B.O.T. (1974) These two linked novellas, featuring interstellar intelligence agents, were comedy-drama take-offs on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The first tells of an agent of the Porcine Interstellar Guard, who performs his missions with the help of several pigs. The second tells of Henry Venn, an agent for "Robot Obtrusion Battalion — Omega Three", who poses as an interplanetary robot salesman while searching for a missing Galactic Census official on a planet populated by paranoid colonists. They were originally published as novelettes, in Analog, July 1967 and July 1969, respectively.
- Planet Story (1978), published as a large format book with colour illustrations by Jim Burns
Short story collections
See List of short stories by Harry Harrison
- Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965)
- War with the Robots (1967)
- Prime Number (1970)
- One Step from Earth (1970)
- The Best of Harry Harrison (1976)
- Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
- Galactic Dreams (1994)
- 50 In 50 (2001)
Omnibus volumes
- The Deathworld Trilogy (1974): Omnibus of Deathworld, Deathworld 2 & Deathworld 3) (vt. The Deathworld Omnibus, 1999) (the BenBella [2005] edition adds the short story `The Mothballed Spaceship' from Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973))
- The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (1978) - omnibus collection of The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge and The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
- To the Stars (1991) - omnibus collection of the three "To The Stars" novels
- Warriors of the Way (1995), with "John Holm", a pseudonym of Tom Shippey: Omnibus of The Hammer and the Cross and One King's Way
- A Stainless Steel Trio (2002) - omnibus collection of A Stainless Steel Rat is Born, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues
Comics
- Rick Random with artist Ron Turner (trade paperback: October 2008, ISBN 1-85375-673-3)
- Flash Gordon (1958–1964), reprinted in Comics Revue.
- The Stainless Steel Rat (1979–1985) was adapted into a comic strip in the magazine 2000 AD by Kelvin Gosnell, with artist Carlos Ezquerra (trade paperback: July 2010, ISBN 1-906735-51-4)
- Harry Harrison's Bill, The Galactic Hero Comics; 3 issues
Miscellanea
- You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat: An Interactive Game Book 1988 - choose your own adventure style interactive novel
- Short story: The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat 1981 - published in Ares Magazine #10 by Simulations Publications Incorporated. The magazine issue included a solitaire paragraph game designed by Greg Costikyan
Non-fiction books
- Ahead of Time, with Theodore J. Gordon (Doubleday, 1972)
- SF Horizons, with Brian W. Aldiss (Arno Press, 1975), ISBN 0-405-06320-2. A photographic reprint of the two issues of a critical magazine published in 1964 and 1965.[4]
- Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers, with Brian Aldiss (Harper & Row, 1976) ISBN 0-06-010052-4.
- Great Balls of Fire! A History of Sex in Science Fiction Illustration (Pierrot Publishing, ISBN 0-905310-07-1; Grosset & Dunlap, ISBN 0-448-14377-1; both 1977)[33]
- Mechanismo: An Illustrated Manual of Science Fiction Hardware (Reed Books, 1978) ISBN 0-89169-504-4
- Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction, with Malcolm Edwards (Exeter Books, 1979) ISBN 0-89673-019-0
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!: A Memoir, (Tor, 2014) ISBN 978-0-7653-3308-7
Anthologies (as editor)
- John W. Campbell: Collected Editorials from Analog (1966)
- Nebula Award Stories No. 2 (1967) (with Brian Aldiss) (vt, Nebula Award Stories 1967)
- Apeman, Spaceman (1968) (with Leon Stover)
- Best SF: 1967 (1968) (vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Farewell Fantastic Venus (1968) (abr as vt, All About Venus, 1968)
- SF: Author's Choice (1968) (vt, A Backdrop of Stars)
- Best SF: 1968 (1969) (rev vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Blast Off: SF for Boys (1969)
- Four for the Future (1969)
- Worlds of Wonder (1969)
- Best SF: 1969 (1970) (vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Nova 1 (1970) (rev edition 1976, UK hc)
- SF: Author's Choice 2 (1970)
- The Year 2000 (1970)
- Best SF: 1970 (1971) (vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 4) (with Brian Aldiss)
- The Light Fantastic (1971)
- SF: Author's Choice 3 (1971)
- The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume One (1972) (with Brian Aldiss) (later split into two paperbacks: The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 1 & The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 2)
- Ahead of Time (1972)
- Best SF: 1971 (1972) (vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 5) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Nova 2 (1972)
- The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume Two (1973) (with Brian Aldiss) (only one edition; NOT the same book as The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 2 above)
- Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973) (vt, The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology)
- Best SF: 1972 (1973) (vt, The Year's Best S.F. 1972) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Nova 3 (1973) (vt, The Outdated Man)
- A Science Fiction Reader (1973) (with Carol Pugner)
- Best SF: 1973 (1974) (abr vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Nova 4 (1974)
- SF: Author's Choice 4 (1974)
- Best SF: 1974 (1975) (abr vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Decade: The 1940s (1975) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers (1975) (with Brian Aldiss) (memoirs by SF writers)
- Science Fiction Novellas (1975) (with Willis E. McNelly)
- Best SF: 1975, The Ninth Annual (1976) (vt, The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 9) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Decade: The 1950s (1976) (with Brian Aldiss)
- Decade: The 1960s (1977) (with Brian Aldiss)
- There Won't Be War (1991) (with Bruce McAllister)
References
- 1 2 Meikle, James (15 August 2012). "Death of Harry Harrison, science fiction author, aged 87". The Guardian. London. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ "PASSINGS: Harry Harrison, Nellie Gray". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Tribune Company. August 17, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Priest, Christopher (15 August 2012). "Harry Harrison obituary". The Guardian. London. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Von Ruff, Al. "Harry Harrison - Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Harry Harrison at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-04. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ↑ Gaughan, Gavin (25 August 2012). "Harry Harrison: Writer of sci-fi novels who created the popular anti-hero the Stainless Steel Rat". The Independent. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Alfred Bester". Library of America. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Robertson, Adi (August 16, 2012). "Harry Harrison, author of 'Deathworld' and the book that inspired 'Soylent Green,' dies at 87". The Verge. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- 1 2 Debucquoy-Dodley, Dominique; Chris Kokenes (August 15, 2012). "Sci-fi writer Harry Harrison, whose book inspired movie 'Soylent Green,' dies at 87". CNN. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Harry Harrison, 1925-2012". Tor Books. August 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Philmus, Robert M. (November 1984). "Notes and Correspondence". Science Fiction Studies. Greencastle, Indiana: DePauw University. 11 (3) (34). ISSN 0091-7729. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ The Years Best Science Fiction at The Official Harry Harrison Website, accessed March 2, 2012
- ↑ Decade series at The Official Harry Harrison Website, accessed March 2, 2012
- ↑ "Harrison, Harry". The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index to Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ↑ "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame". Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc. Retrieved 2012-04-25. This was the official website of the hall of fame to 2004.
- ↑ "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ↑ Martin, Douglas (August 17, 2012). "Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ↑ Report of the Board of Education of the City of Waterbury (p. 118)
- ↑ Paul Tomlinson 2002, p. 15.
- ↑ Interview with Harry Harrison in Moscow
- ↑ Yokohama Burning (p. 242)
- ↑ American Jewish Year Book (p. 162)
- ↑ Jewish Telegraph Agency (p. 233)
- ↑ Yale University Alumni Biographies (Meyer Wolf, p. 233)
- ↑ Max Kirjassoff Biography
- ↑ Asimov, Isaac (1979). In Memory Yet Green, The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954. Doubleday. pp. 614, 620.
- 1 2 The Hydra Club by Harrison
- ↑ The Official Harry Harrison Website, accessed August 15, 2012
- ↑ Martin, Douglas (August 17, 2012). "Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ↑ "Harry Harrison is a self-confessed atheist" per official website HarryHarrison.com
- ↑ "One King's Way". Iol.ie. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ↑ Slade, Joseph W. (2000). Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide, Volume 2. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 527.
Harry Harrison identifies the sexy illustrations and magazine covers that helped to build an American audience for science fiction in Great Balls of Fire! A History of Sex in Science Fiction Illustration.
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- Official website
- Harry Harrison News Blog – About: "maintained by Paul Tomlinson and Michael Carroll, who also maintain Harry’s official website at www.harryharrison.com"
- Harry Harrison at the Internet Movie Database
- "Worlds Beside Worlds" (Harry Harrison describes how "Tunnel through the Deeps" was written)
- Interview with Harry Harrison at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009) 6 July 1997, Dublin, Ireland
- Samples of works published as e-books
- Biography and criticism
- "Harry Harrison biography". Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
- Stover, Leon. Harry Harrison. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
- Bibliography and works
- Harry Harrison at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Harry Harrison Papers at the University of South Florida
- Works by Harry Harrison at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Harry Harrison at Internet Archive
- Works by Harry Harrison at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Harry Harrison at Library of Congress Authorities, with 108 catalog records