Make Room! Make Room!
by Harry Harrison
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Author: Harry HarrisonEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0765318857
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Orb Books
Book Reviews of Make Room! Make Room!
Book Review: A good read
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this book , I like the movie Soylent Green, too -- which tells a very different story. They complement one another, but they are by no means the same.
Harrison gives us a gritty tour through a believable overcrowded New York in a run-down world that could have been. Still could be.....
I bought the Orb edition currently on sale at Amazon. Funny thing - the plot turns on a murder that happens somewhere between pages 64 and 97. Those pages are missing from my book, and 97-123 are printed twice. And the book was still compelling enough to hold my interest. That's good writing. So I recommend it...but maybe you want to wait for the second edition from this publisher.
Summary of Make Room! Make Room!
The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and —if they’re lucky—the odd starving rat.
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone….
Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone….
Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.
Twenty-five millions souls in this 1967 novel struggle to survive in 1999's desperately overcrowded Manhattan. A frightening if, fortunately, not yet wholly accurate portrait of the near future, Harry Harrison's novel was filmed as SOYLENT GREEN starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in his last role.
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