(Original Review, 1980-08-19)Pournelle's virulently infectious optimism is severely misplaced. Other people have already pointed out that his strategy involves the probable abandonment of Earth and the bulk of its population (what-the-hell, they're just gooks anyway); I'll just add that even RAH [20...
By the eve of the millennium Earth's population has exploded. New York City alone supports 35 million. There's not enough food or water, the rivers run dirty and the air is barely fit to breathe, and fossil fuels have long since been exhausted. And yet, birth control is a controversial concept th...
It's the future - 1999 in fact! Over 7 billion humans, 35 million of them in New York City where a cop, a gangster's moll and a street kid all collide on their no longer separate searches for food and water security. Shanties, tent cities, people living in ships and cars that can't move because ther...
First thing, Forget about the movie Soylent Green which was based on Harry Harrison's novel about overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!. There is no Charleston Heston screaming , "Soylent Green is people!" and nothing about cannibalism. What we have instead is a very effective and disquieting look ...
In 1966, Harrison published this tale of the New York City of 1999. Unrestrained population growth and gluttany of natural resources have led to a world packed to bursting with people. There are riots over cracker crumbs, you have to pay up-front to get a job, and people live packed like sardines....
Well, okay enough for what it was, but A) these lunkheads don't collect rainwater during a water shortage? and B) nothing about Soylent Green being people? Really? That's all movie script addenda? Boooo. Leaving aside the movie, it's not very good as a novel (though fine as a polemic, and there's g...
2011 seems to have been the year of the dystopian novel for me. Along with parsing through the deluge of new YA arrivals, I decided to check out a few of the classics as a palate cleanser.The first part of the book hooked me with its vivid detail of major city plagued by overpopulation. In my opinio...
Let me ask you a question before we go any further. Have you watched the movie Soylent Green which was based on this book? No? Go watch it now. I'll wait.Back again? Tastes like p... ahem.. Anyway, have I told you that this book is different from the movie? No? So what are you doing wasting your t...
When I started this book I fully expected that I would give it at least four stars. Harry Harrison is one of the old-time science fiction writers who have given me so much enjoyment through the years and I may have even read this one in the distant past, but if I did I don't quite remember. I could ...
Hooray for .48 cent books! The novel on which Soylent Green (one of many films that are so busy being remembered for Charlton Heston screaming like a madman, that it is forgotten that they are very good films) was based.
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