And the funniest video ever
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd0ql6_phil-hartman-soylent-green_fun
Rest In Peace, Harry Harrison, and our prayers are with your loved ones.
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And with Harry Esperanto is also finally dead. He was a big fan of the silly fake language, even had his books published in it, I’m pretty sure the only guy who published in it. With Harry gone and Bob Asprin gone and Terry Pratchett on the short life expectancy list the world of SF comedy is pretty thin.
RIP Harry, great DJ on WABC 770AM, NY during the late 50’s.
Long Live Harry Harrison!
Now, he joins the rolls with Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Ben Bova.
RIP.
I loved HH’s DEATHWORLD series, especially the first one. Great cncept, great action. His snarky antihero was ahead of his time. Did anyone else read & love those books as I did?
RIP the writers who started out in Sci-Fi magazine serials.
We’ll never see their like again (well, maybe a similar medium will rise on the internet).
One of my favorite SF authors when I was a kid. Sigh.
One thing I always wonder about is why a lot of writers seem to be best known for one of their truly bad books. “Make Room! Make Room!” was not Harrison at his best. Certainly not compared to the first three Stainless Steel Rat books or the three Deathworld books.
Neville Shute suffered the same problem. “On the Beach” was one of his worst — especially compared to “Trustee from the Toolroom,” “Most Secret,” “No Highway in the Sky,” and especially “Pied Piper.”
Deathworld
The Ethical Engineer (Deathworld II, I believe).
The Misplaced Battleship (The second third of the first "Stainless Steel Rat" novel).
Planet of the Dammned
Arm of the Law (One of his best.)
The Stainless Steel Rat was one of my favorites growing up. Sad to see him die.
