Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison, geboren als Henry Maxwell Dempsey am 12. März 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, war ein gefeierter amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor. Er adoptierte den Nachnamen Harrison mit 30 Jahren, obwohl er nicht wusste, dass seine Eltern den Familiennamen von Dempsey zuvor geändert hatten. Harrisons Vater, Leo Dempsey, hatte irische Wurzeln und arbeitete als Maler, während seine Mutter eine jüdische Einwanderin aus Russland war. Aufgrund des Berufs seines Vaters lebte Harrison in seiner Kindheit in verschiedenen Ländern, darunter England, Dänemark, Irland, Mexiko und Italien.

Bevor Harrison seine Schriftstellerkarriere begann, diente er in der Armee und entwickelte ein Interesse an Esperanto, um Langeweile zu bekämpfen. Später beeinflusste dieses Interesse sein Schreiben, wobei Esperanto häufig in seinen Büchern auftauchte. Harrison zog während der 1970er Jahre nach Irland, wo er ein Haus in County Wicklow baute und viele Jahre mit seiner Familie lebte. Er wurde zu einem Befürworter von Esperanto und diente als Ehrenpräsident der Irischen Esperanto-Vereinigung.

Harry Harrison ist am besten für seine Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Romane bekannt, insbesondere für seine Figur, den Stainless Steel Rat, und den Roman Make Room! Make Room! (1966), der als Grundlage für den Film Soylent Green (1973) diente. Bevor er Romancier wurde, arbeitete Harrison als Künstler für EC Comics und trug zu Serien wie Weird Fantasy und Weird Science bei. Er schrieb auch syndizierte Comic-Strips. Harrisons Science-Fiction-Geschichten umfassten typischerweise Abenteuer und Satire, oft mit ernsten Themen. Er begann seine Schriftstellerkarriere mit der Veröffentlichung von Deathworld im Jahr 1960, obwohl er dem Genre bereits vorher bedeutende Beiträge geleistet hatte. Harrison war auch Mitpräsident der Birmingham Science Fiction Group, gemeinsam mit Brian W. Aldiss.
Stainless Steel Rat Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Stainless Steel Rat 1961
2 The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge 1970
3 The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World 1971
4 The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! 1978
5 The Stainless Steel Rat for President 1982
6 A Stainless Steel Rat is Born 1985
7 The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted 1987
8 Stainless Steel Visions 1992
9 The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues 1994
10 The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell 1996
11 The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus 1999
12 The Stainless Steel Rat Returns 2010
Stainless Steel Rat Series in Chronological Order
# Titel Jahr
1 A Stainless Steel Rat is Born 1985
2 The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted 1987
3 The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues 1994
4 Stainless Steel Rat 1961
5 The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge 1970
6 The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World 1971
7 The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! 1978
8 The Stainless Steel Rat for President 1982
9 Stainless Steel Visions 1992
10 The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell 1996
11 The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus 1999
12 The Stainless Steel Rat Returns 2010
Stainless Steel Rat (Game Books) Books
# Titel Jahr
1 You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat 1985
Nova Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Nova One 1971
2 Nova 2 1972
3 Nova 3 / The Outdated Man 1973
4 Nova IV 1974
Bill, The Galactic Hero Books (with Robert Sheckley, with Jack C. Haldeman II, with David Bischoff, with David Harris)
# Titel Jahr
1 Bill, the Galactic Hero 1965
2 The Planet of the Robot Slaves 1989
3 On the Planet of Bottled Brains 1990
4 On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure 1990
5 On the Planet of Zombie Vampires 1991
6 The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars 1991
7 The Final Incoherent Adventure! 1992
Stars and Stripes Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Stars and Stripes Forever 1998
2 Stars and Stripes in Peril 2000
3 Stars and Stripes Triumphant 2001
Tony Hawkin Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Montezuma's Revenge 1972
2 Queen Victoria's Revenge 1974
To The Stars Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Homeworld 1980
2 Wheelworld 1981
3 Starworld 1981
Deathworld Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Deathworld 1960
2 Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer 1964
3 Deathworld 3 1968
Eden Books
# Titel Jahr
1 West of Eden 1984
2 Winter in Eden 1986
3 Return to Eden 1988
Brion Brandd Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation 1962
2 Planet of No Return 1981
Hammer and The Cross Books (with John Holm)
# Titel Jahr
1 The Hammer and the Cross 1993
2 One King's Way 1994
3 King and Emperor 1996
Harry Harriston Standalone Novels
# Titel Jahr
1 Plague from Space 1965
2 The Jupiter Plague 1965
3 Make Room! Make Room! 1966
4 The Technicolor Time Machine 1967
5 The Man from P.I.G. 1968
6 Captive Universe 1969
7 In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect 1970
8 Spaceship Medic 1970
9 The Jupiter Legacy 1970
10 Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! 1972
11 Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died 1972
12 The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. 1974
13 Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers 1974
14 The Lifeship / Lifeboat 1975
15 The California Iceberg 1975
16 Skyfall 1976
17 Mechanismo 1978
18 Planet Story 1979
19 The QEII is Missing 1980
20 Invasion: Earth 1982
21 A Rebel in Time 1983
22 The Turing Option 1992
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
# Titel Jahr
1 Navy Day 1954
2 The Velvet Glove 1956
3 The Repairman 1958
4 Arm of the Law 1958
5 The Misplaced Battleship 1960
6 The K-Factor 1960
7 Toy Shop 2010
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen
# Titel Jahr
1 War with the Robots 1962
2 Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows 1965
3 Prime Number 1970
4 One Step from Earth 1970
5 The Best of Harry Harrison 1977
6 Galactic Dreams 1995
7 50 in 50 2001
8 Toy Shop and Two Others 2009
9 The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned 2016
Sachbücher
# Titel Jahr
1 Great Balls of Fire 1977
2 Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction 1979
3 Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! 2014
Best SF Anthologies (with Brian W. Aldiss, with Robert Sheckley)
# Titel Jahr
1 Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 1969
2 Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 1970
3 Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 1971
4 Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 1972
5 Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 1976
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books (with Robert Silverberg, with James Blish, with Poul Anderson, with Clifford D. Simak, with Fritz Leiber, with Robert Sheckley, with Roger Dee, with Anthony Gilmore, with Robert Hoskins, with Richard Rein Smith)
# Titel Jahr
1 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI 2016
2 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV 2018
3 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018
The EC Archives Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 3 2005
2 Weird Science Volume 1 2006
3 Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 2007
4 Weird Science, Vol. 2 2007
5 Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2 2007
6 Frontline Combat, Vol. 1 2008
7 The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 2015
8 Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3 2016
9 Weird Fantasy Volume 1 2016
10 The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 4 2017
11 The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 3 2018
12 The EC Archives: Panic Volume 2 2018
13 The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 5 2018
14 The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 2019
15 The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories Volume 4 2019
16 Frontline Combat Volume 2 2019
17 Psychoanalysis 2020
18 Frontline Combat Volume 3 2021
19 Confessions Illustrated 2022
20 Tales from the Crypt Volume 3 2023
Harry Harrison Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965
2 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965 1965
3 Nebula Award Stories #2 1966
4 Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 1967
5 Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus 1968
6 SF: Author's Choice 1968
7 Apeman, Spaceman 1968
8 Backdrop of Stars 1968
9 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 1969
10 Analog 6 1969
11 Four for the Future 1969
12 Blast Off 1969
13 Worlds of If, February 1969 1969
14 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970
15 Nova 1 1970
16 The Year 2000 1970
17 SF Authors' Choice 2 1970
18 Science Against Man 1970
19 The Light Fantastic 1971
20 The Astounding Analog Reader 1972
21 The 6th Annual Best SF 72 1973
22 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973
23 A Science Fiction Reader 1973
24 Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series 1973
25 SF Authors' Choice 3 1973
26 The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973
27 Wondermakers 2 1974
28 Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974
29 Decade: The 1940's 1975
30 Hell's Cartographers 1975
31 Antigrav 1975
32 Decade: The 1950s 1976
33 Study War No More 1977
34 Decade: The 1960s 1977
35 Weekend Book of Science Fiction 1981
36 Tales from the Planet Earth 1986
37 Tales From the Forbidden Planet 1987
38 The Monster Book of Monsters 1988
39 The Drabble Project 1988
40 There Won't Be War 1991
41 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories 1996
42 The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999
43 Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010
44 Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut 2010
45 The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack 2012
46 Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 2016
47 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XIV 2018
48 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018