Wiki reports that Harrison wrote more than 50 novels, but he will always be best known for the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was the basis for the film staring Charlton Heston called Soylent Green.
He is survived by his two children two children, Todd and Moira
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Wow, we're dropping like flies lately.
Another one who made great contributions now gone.
And I hate to say it, but I don't see anyone on the horizon to take over for the greats. And he was one of the greats.
I knew that he wasn't doing well several years ago when I wanted to do a short story by him, all I got were his representatives and then nothing. Even though the stories I wanted were all in the "project" I stayed clear, he didn't renew the CWs but was bothered that they were being listed....didn't want to be in the middle of that..
OooH yeah, don't blame you there. If I can find the name of that one story, I'll get it to you. It was a short one by Asimov that was funny as all get out. At least for me it was. And it's under 1000 words i think.
"Insert knob A into hole B"
That was it. I lost that book with it years ago, when my collection was sold out from under me while I was overseas in the service.
oh don't you just love that! My collection wasn't huge, but I had significant items like a solid OMNI and ASFAM & ASFM. I boxed them up when I got married and said I would send for them as soon as we got settled which was about a year....by that time it was gone. Lovely huh...
Yeah, here's an example of what I had. Fantastic four 2-210, All the x-men, all of the Ghost Rider, all of Machine man, all of Rom space knight, total of about 5,000 comic books.
All my omni, Fnagoria, Cinemagic, Starlog, etc all from issue 1. A 12 year collection of the short story magazines like Asimov's, etc.
Also had the astrology magazines, discover, etc.
And all of my figures from my planets of the apes and star trek figures still in boxes, all my star wars, space 1999, and even my one favorite thing. A fully completed modified with lights in the eyes Giant Robot model.
All my stills and posters, and even my star wars black etched painted mirrors.
Needless to say, I was a tad more than upset.
He even sold off all my GI Joe's and my big jims.
If I ever hit a lottery, I swear by the TARDIS herself, I will have my collection back. Including the story of star wars on vinyl.
Then I'm I'm finding a big red trash can on it's sids with 3 million years on the clock, and getting the smeg out of here before I lose it again.
I do have two copies now however of one of my favorite books of all time.
"A world out of time" by Larry Niven. I still read that book again now an average of at least once every six months. I know a lot of the science in it has since been totally dis-proven, but I don't care. I love that book.
I went in for HC books...yeah most were SFBC but my favs were my first edition Dragon Riders series and believe it or not I loved my pb Foundation series. It took me forever to find the paperback of Foundation in good condition. Never did do action figures so your collection way much more righteous than mine. Now I haven't the space to start over....but I do have a few signed copies, nothing collectable, but to have an author say thanks with a signed book...well that's kinda cool.
Best I have now is a first edition Planet of the apes, (nothing like the movie was) and a first edition Son of Tarzan.
Would love to get my hands on a signed copy of Logan's Run before the new movie comes out, even though the thought of that makes me shudder at what they are going to do to it this time.
And SFBC was where I came across World Out of Time as well. And I remember every book you mentioned.
Mom was a big fan of Pern herself.
Logan's Run huh....Can't say I was thrilled by the first feature length treatment of the book. I liked the book, it was gritty and real but the movie was saccharin nonsense. It did have it's moments, and you can say it was the times, but look at some of the science fiction classics of that era and you fast find out that the movie was just poorly imagined.
You know, that is where I got my love of Pern. Yes, I know, SF/Fantasy but there was enough SF to carry me. I took DRs as one of my original four and Asimov's robot collection and I was off and running.
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