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(1925 - 2012)
An avid pulp-fiction reader and science fiction fan since the age of 13, Harrison was a founding member of the Queens chapter of the Science Fiction League. After a two year stint in the Army during WW2, he attended art colleges and worked as an illustrator for Galaxy and Marvel Stories magazines. He became a member of the Hydra Club, alongside such science fiction professionals as Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, Lester del Rey, L. Sprague de Camp and sold his first short story in 1950, after which he veered from visual arts to writing and editing comics and science fiction.
His novels include The Stainless Steel Rat series, starring the intergalactic charming rogue 'Slippery Jim' diGriz; the West of Eden trilogy, and Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted for the film Soylent Green. Among the 50 anthologies he has edited were The Year's Best SF.
He is a winner of the Nebula Award and the Prix Jules Verne, and a cofounder of SF Horizons - the first magazine of SF criticism - with Brian Aldiss. Organised the first International Science Fiction Authors Conference in Ireland, where he currently resides. Edited works:
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- Deathworld (1960)
- Stainless Steel Rat, the (1961)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero (1964)
- Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
- Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, the (1970)
- Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, the (1972)
- Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!, a (1972)
- Lifeship, the (1976)
- Stainless Steel Rat Wants You, the (1978)
- Homeworld (1980)
- Wheelworld (1981)
- Starworld (1981)
- Stainless Steel Rat for President, the (1982)
- West of Eden (1984)
- Stainless Steel Rat is Born, a (1985)
- Winter in Eden (1986)
- Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, the (1987)
- Return to Eden (1988)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1989)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1991)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure (1991)
- Turing Option, the (1992)
- Hammer and the Cross, the (1993)
- Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues, the (1994)
- One King's Way (1995)
- Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell, the (1996)
- King and Emperor (1996)
- Stars and Stripes Forever (1998)
- Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus, the (1999)
- Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000)
- Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2003)
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