Der 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, geborene US-amerikanische Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller Harry Harrison (Bild) ist gestern in Crowborough gestorben.
Foto: © Szymon Sokół, 2005, Lizenz: GNU-Lizenz für freie Dokumentation – Die Originaldatei ist hier zu finden: http://de.wikipedia.org
«Comic-Zeichner, Science-Fiction-Autor, Antikriegsliterat: Harry Harrison wurde mit der Romanvorlage des Films ‚Soylent Green‘ berühmt, Fans und Freunde lieben seine ebenso zwielichtigen wie liebenswerten Charaktere. Jetzt ist der legendäre US-Schriftsteller im Alter von 87 Jahren gestorben.»
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/science-fiction-autor-harry-harrison-ist-tot-a-850285.html
«An amazingly prolific author, who gradually took on more serious themes as he matured, Harrison is probably best known for the book that inspired the Hollywood film Soylent Green (1973). Directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson, Soylent Green was an uncompromising view of a world a quarter of a century into the future, in which massive overpopulation has created a critical food shortage. The solution is an alleged soya/lentil substitute – the plot concerns the discovery of the true nature of the stuff.»
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/15/harry-harrison?newsfeed=true
«If Harry Harrison had only created ‚Slippery‘ Jim DiGriz, the roguish hero of the Stainless Steel Rat books, he would deserve a high place in science fiction history. But he also wrote dozens of other novels, including the hilarious Bill the Galactic Hero saga, the proto-Steampunk classic A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!, and the novel that became the movie Soylent Green, Make Room! Make Room!.»
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison
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