Please extend it by adding more information about the person, such as fanzines and apazines published, awards, clubs, conventions worked on, GoHships, impact on fandom, external links, anecdotes, etc. Video of his Stonehenge and Sex talk at Eastercon 22.Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.His interest in the language Esperanto, made its way into several of Harrison's works and he was the honorary President of the Esperanto Association of Ireland. Later in life, he would move to the Republic of Ireland. During World War II, Harrison served as a gunnery instructor for the United States Air Force. Shortly after his birth, his father changed the family name to Harrison, a fact Harry did not know until he was thirty, at which time he officially changed his name to Harry Max Harrison. It 1976 he was a leader in the attempt to create World SF: An Organization of SF Professionals. In the 1990s, Harrison turned his attention to alternate history, first writing The Hammer and the Cross trilogy and later the Stars and Stripes Forever trilogy. Aldiss, of the second Nebula Award Anthology and went on to edit, with Aldiss and alone, several other anthology series, including Decade, Nova, and a best of the year series that lasted for nine years. Harrison won a Nebula Award for the film.

Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room, Make Room was turned into the feature film Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston. Harrison's creation of Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, led to a lengthy series about the anti-hero and he also created the humorous character Bill, the Galactic Hero. His first novel, Deathworld, published in 1960, garnered Harrison a Hugo nomination.

He went on to write for comics as well as edit them before turning his attention to prose, publishing the short story 'Rock Diver' in Worlds Beyond in 1951.ĭuring the 1950s and 60s, Harrison served as the main writer for the ' Flash Gordon' comic strip. Harrison entered the science fiction field professionally as an illustrator for EC Comics, working on Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. Harry Harrison was a founding member of the Queens Science Fiction League and attended the first Worldcon in 1939.

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