Harry Harrison passed away today. He was the author of 'Make Room Make Room', which was the inspiration for Soylent Green, as well as the Stainless Steel Rat series. He wrote Alt History, Fantasy, Hard Scifi, you name it. I'll just link the wiki section with his bibliography because copying and pasting it here would just choke your browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison#Bibliography
My favorite is the three part 'The Hammer and the Cross' series which posits a different English history diverting in approximately 865AD when a young man named Shef finds himself in the middle of the Vikings' Great Army as it lands in Southeast England.
I read the Stainless Steel Rat and at least a couple others in the series. Harrison was a very interesting writer. His passing is sad news indeed.
Rest in peace, Harry.
Another great writer gone. I loved the Stainless Steel Rat stories, and that great spoof novel, Bill the Galactic Hero.
Quote from: bob48 on August 16, 2012, 02:10:28 PM
Another great writer gone. I loved the Stainless Steel Rat stories, and that great spoof novel, Bill the Galactic Hero.
All Hail Bill! Great fun novels. I read all the Stainlees Steel Rat novels. His West of Eden trilogy was a good read too.
He will be missed......
He also had an alt-history series about a war between the USA, CSA, and Great Britain set in during the US Civil War, called 'Stars and Stripes Forever/Stars and Stripes in Peril/Stars and Stripes Triumphant'.
I need to read a lot more of his stuff. Don't know why I didn't when I was younger and reading a ton of sci-fi.
Damn. Sorry to hear of HH's passing. The Deathworld books were some of my favorites back in the day. RIP Harry.
Hammer and the Cross was excellent. Stainless Steel Rat was a good concept, but became formulaic pretty fast.