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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
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Make Room! Make Room! (original 1966; edition 1966)

by Harry Harrison (Author)

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A stark, unbridled vision of planet Earth on the brink of collapse, and the inspiration behind the classic sci-fi film, Soylent Green. At the close of the twentieth century, a planet overwhelmed by rampant overpopulation teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, 35 million people are squeezed into its packed boroughs, scrambling like rats for the world's dwindling resources. The only food available is a product called Soylent. And while the government tries to maintain order, the rich get richer and the poor stay underfoot. Finding a killer in this broken world is one hell of a job. But that's exactly what detective Andy Rusch has been assigned to do. If he can stay alive long enough, he might just solve the biggest case he's ever been on-unless humanity finally fulfills its promise and destroys itself first.… (more)
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Title:Make Room! Make Room!
Authors:Harry Harrison (Author)
Info:Doubleday (1966), Edition: 1st, 216 pages
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (1966)

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In spite of its reputation as the source for the film Soylent Green this is a very boring book. ( )
  edwinbcn | Aug 1, 2023 |
The book had some great concepts of the future and a real message to be considered but the writing doesn’t live up to it’s potential . More of a noir detective story with a touch of romance than real science fiction. The book was the inspiration for the classic movie “Soylent Gree” - spoiler alerts - however the main plot between the two are very different . The book and film both have the same main characters and set in the near future with an overpopulated world but the book deals with disappointments set in the sad realities of life in that future world and the message that the world needs to address birth control before it’s too late while the film is driven by a horrible truth not covered in the book. ( )
  Daniel_M_Oz | May 13, 2023 |
A combination of a noir detective story and a polemic for widely available (and used) birth control, written in 1966 and set in 1999.

The writing is just ordinary, and it didn’t hold my attention until the last third of the book, when the pace picked up considerably. The female characters are stereotypical (call girl with a good heart; stupid, slovenly, lazy mother of far too many children).
I know this book is popular, but it didn’t work for me. It’s very different from the movie, but neither hurts nor helps the reading experience. ( )
  Matke | Mar 26, 2023 |
I have classified this book as science fiction, but it does not fall into this category. Harry Harrison wrote the book in 1967 or thereabouts, and it paints a very scary, very plausible view of our future. In New York, 1999, the good cop, Andy, is called in to investigate a murder. He has a brief affair with the victim's mistress, who finally leaves him for a better life.

The nub lies here. A small elite lives a fabulous life of luxury. The rest, in crowded tenements, live on food scraps, struggling to survive. There is no escape, and in the end, Andy sees his ex-girlfriend get into a taxi - the mistress of a rich man.

There is no escape from this dystopian, Malthusian future. What makes the book scary is that the picture he painted is plausible and closer than we think.

The movie, 'Soylent Green', is based on this book - and is even bleaker.

Read this book along with '1984,' 'Animal Farm,' and 'Brave New World.' ( )
  RajivC | Feb 25, 2023 |
It's hard to believe that this book was published in 1966 -- the heat waves, the birth control debate, the use of soybeans as a staple of the diet -- all these issues hit too close to home.

Although the plot was interesting, I suppose I was expecting more of a societal view of the problems that were happening, rather than a murder mystery set in a crumbling, dystopian society. Definitely worth reading, but does not address the issues in a hard-hitting way like Brunner's "Sheep." ( )
  resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 |
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Harrison, Harryprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Charles and CuffariCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ehrlich, Paul R.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Festino, GiuseppeCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Festino, GiuseppeIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Peroni, PauletteTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Solie, JohnCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Westermayr, TonyTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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To TODD and MOIRA For your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction.
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Prologue: In December 1959 The President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, said: 'This government ... will not ... as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its program that has to do with this problem of birth control.
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- stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.
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So mankind gobbled in a century all the world's resources that had taken millions of years to store up, and no one on the top gave a damn or listened to all the voices that were trying to warn them, they just let us overproduce and overconsume until now the oil is gone, the topsoil depleted and washed away, the trees chopped down, the animals extinct, the earth poisoned, and all we have to show for this is seven billion people fighting over the scraps that are left, living a miserable existence--and still breeding without control.
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A stark, unbridled vision of planet Earth on the brink of collapse, and the inspiration behind the classic sci-fi film, Soylent Green. At the close of the twentieth century, a planet overwhelmed by rampant overpopulation teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, 35 million people are squeezed into its packed boroughs, scrambling like rats for the world's dwindling resources. The only food available is a product called Soylent. And while the government tries to maintain order, the rich get richer and the poor stay underfoot. Finding a killer in this broken world is one hell of a job. But that's exactly what detective Andy Rusch has been assigned to do. If he can stay alive long enough, he might just solve the biggest case he's ever been on-unless humanity finally fulfills its promise and destroys itself first.

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