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Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly 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). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss…
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culture · American science fiction author (1925–2012) · writer · novelist · Esperantist · science fiction writer · prose writer · screenwriter · comics artist · comics writer · draftsperson · also Harry Harrison, Harry Harrison (writer), Harry Max Harrison, Harry Maxwell Harrison, Felix Boyd, Hank Dempsey
Born 12 March 1924 · Died 15 August 2012 · Q489193
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,732 times.
Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,894 times.
Harlan Ellison said, "It's a day without stars in it
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Died 2012-08-15.
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Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,815 times.
Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2009).
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Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2004).
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Awarded Inkpot Award (2004).
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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)
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Published “Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 14,921 times.
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
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Original Anthology for Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (1974).
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And Brian Aldiss became honorary co-presidents of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group, the UK's longest-established regional sf society
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Harrison and Aldiss published the first issue (of two) of the world's first serious journal of SF criticism, SF Horizons
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“at times bore a faint resemblance to the book”
Died in November, 2025) and Moira (born in 1959), to whom he dedicated his novel Make Room
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And Evelyn married the science fiction writer Lester del Rey shortly afterwards
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Enrolled in Hunter College in New York City and later ran a studio selling illustrations to comics and science fiction magazines
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Harrison was drafted into the U
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Born 1924-03-12.
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