harry harrison

Harry Max Harrison born: Henry Maxwell Dempsey legally changed to Harry Max Harrison aged 30. pen names: : Buzz Tank Billy, Felix Boyd, Cameron Hall, Wade Kaempfert, Philip St. John, Felix Boyd and Hank Dempsey. born Stamford, Connecticut: 12 March 1925 died Brighton, England: 12 August 2012...

Mankind has been expanding through the galaxy for millennia. FTL exists but it is only moderately fast so only a small portion of the galaxy is reachable form any position. Every time man has found another civilization, it turns out to be the remains of an earlier expansion. A starship crew that...

https://medium.com/framerated/soylent-green-1973-50-years-later-373f6a66fc7a What are your thoughts on this dystopian story of over population and resources shortage?

Trying to find a short story, probably ca. 1970, about the marriage of the magnificent prince of an interstellar empire. His bride, likewise magnificent, was raised to be a royal mate. Everything seems as perfect as can be. When their first child is born, it has Thanks in advance - it is...

It was in a collection of sci-fi stories but I don't know the theme. The story is about a hyperspace beacon repair guy and he has to spend months getting to the beacon that's down because it's causing a gap in the "safe to navigate" section of space around it. When he gets there, he discovers...

I have been reading the Stainless Steel Rat series by The late Harry Harrison for over 30 years. I always read by release date but I note on Wikipedia that they can be read in a different order. It appears that some of the later books can be read before the release date. Is this correct and is...

Google isn't helping, but I'll try to provide any info I remember. I borrowed this book (first one in the series) from my high school library in 2014. There were at least two other books in the series out then, but I never read them. It was paperback, and there may (or may not?) have been red on...

Good morning, I'm looking for the title and, if possible, the author’s name of a Scifi-Story: Someone (a professor?) invented a comparatively small time machine. He can send not too big things to the past. So he and his students go to Stonehenge and send a camera back in time hoping they can...

I am trying to find a book I read in the 70's that was about colonists where the planet is trying to kill them.

Main Character on his first mission off planet earth, to a planet where all species of life are carnivorous and highly aggressive. Main Character is Highly trained notably his senses and reflexes. Must be able to dispatch with sidearm any sudden attack by plant or animal. I read this book at...

Hello, So hopefully there is someone else out there, AND on this forum that can help me. Paperback book with a white cover, and has a 'gate' that looks like a doorway entrance Book was a list of short story of progress earth made on these travel gates One early chapter was one guy travelling by...

I read this book in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It may have been an Ace Double. Plot opens on world 1, there is a base or encampment that is under attack by various forms of non-sentient life, idea is that life on this place is constantly evolving to destroy the human base. An expedition...

hi folks- i am writing a piece on the recently released torture report and i want to include a line from a story i read as a teen. do you know the name of an old (70's maybe?) sci fi story about a future where children are raised by teddy bears - the teddy bears are kind of like "skinner boxes"...

Book where time traveling movie producers go back and pick up a Viking. He loves Jack Daniels. They leave a crew, the Viking, and a case of Jack in Medieval Norway and go back to Hollywood for other stuff. On their return they find that while they had only been gone 3 days, more than a year had...

Looking for an old sci if book my dad talked about before he passed away. The only thing I remember him saying about it is a man winds up on planet that is constantly at war. Everyone on this planet is a badass. Children are brought up to fight. The only part I remember him talking about is...

Looking for a short story from the 80's, I believe. Group of space soldiers have to fight their way to a teleportation screen and toss a nuke through to stop an invasion. Jet or rocket driven powered axes feature prominently, at least in my memory. :D For some reason my mind associates this...

Harry Harrison, who died this year, was one of the most popular SF writers of his generation with more than 50 novels published between 1960 and 2010. He specialised in light, fast-moving and entertaining adventure thrillers, generally flavoured with his satirical sense of humour. Bill, the...

I don't know if this has been covered before, not sure it's in the SFF realm or not, but at least you guys can say if it is. I am reading a book by William Golding called "The Inheritors" about a clan of Neanderthals who meet modern man. So far, I am not getting into the story, not sure if...

This is one of Harrison's first novels and is part of a series.. Jason DinAlt is a professional gambler who has psi powers that he can turn to his advantage. One night he is approached by a stranger with a unique proposition-gamble a huge amount of money to make a fortune worth billions. At...

Harry Harrison, the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat, Bill the Galactic Hero, and the Deathworld trilogy, died today, August 15, aged 87. http://scifibulletin.com/2012/08/15/rip-harry-harrison/