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Harry Harrison

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Harry Harrison

12 March 1925 – 15 August 2012

Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved into editing pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic. In 1954 he married, and their first child was born in 1955. In 1956 he became a full-time writer, and began working on his first book in addition to writing for other publications such as The Saint syndicated comic strips. Over the next decade he and his family moved to several places, including Mexico, England, Italy, back to New York for the birth of their second child in 1959, to Denmark for seven years, back to England in 1965, San Diego in 1967, and finally Ireland in 1975 where they settled. Harrison produced over 60 books, occasionally in collaboration with other well-known writers such as Gordon R. Dickson.

Bibliography

Books

30 books

Foundation’s Friends cover

Foundation’s Friends

1989

Martin H. Greenberg, Pamela Sargent, Robert Silverberg, Edward Wellen, Harry Turtledove, Connie Willis, George Alec Effinger, Mike Resnick, Barry N. Malzberg, Sheila Finch, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, George Zebrowski, Robert Sheckley, Edward D. Hoch, Hal Clement, Harry Harrison, Orson Scott Card

Machines That Think cover

Machines That Think

1984

Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg, Ambrose Bierce, John Wyndham, Harl Vincent, Harry Bates, Robert Moore Williams, Lester del Rey, A. E. van Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Walter M. Miller Jr., Jesse F. Bone, Harry Harrison, Michael Shaara, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner, Frederic Brown, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, George Zebrowski

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Microcosmic Tales

1980

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Donald Franson, Norman E. Hartman, Jack Ritchie, Charles E. Fritch, Phyllis Eisenstein, Fredric Brown, Robert Mattingly, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Zebrowski, Charles Sheffield, George H. Smith, Robert F. Decker, Harry Harrison, Richard Wilson, T. E. D. Klein, Richard K. Lyon, Arthur C. Clarke, Patricia Matthews, Alan Brennert, James Tiptree, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Bob Shaw, Walt Liebscher, Mack Reynolds, A. E. van Vogt, Paul Dellinger, Harlan Ellison, Henry Slesar, Ron Montana, Joanna Russ, Theodore Cogswell, Marcia Martin, Eric Vinicoff, Edward Bryant, Garen Drussaï, William F. Nolan, Helen M. Urban, Robert Silverberg, Alice Laurance, Robert Sheckley, Charles A. Spano Jr., Craig Strete, Rick Conley, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis R. Caro, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Payes, Fritz Leiber, Ray Russell, Roberta Ghidalia, Sherwood Springer, Joseph F. Patrouch, Roland J. Green, H. L. Gold, Jan Howard Finder, Ruth Berman, James E. Gunn, Philip José Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Arthur Tofte, F. M. Busby, Paul J. Nahin, James A. Stevens, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Juleen Brantingham, Maggie Nadler, Lester del Rey, Larry Niven, Edward Wellen

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Science Fiction A to Z

1982

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Alan Dean Foster, Richard Matheson, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague De Camp, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Anvil, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Brian W. Aldiss, G. Harry Stine, Andre Norton, Gordon R. Dickson, Evan Hunter, William F. Nolan, Eric Frank Russell, Robert F. Young, Katherine MacLean, Joseph Willard Schutz, Anne McCaffrey, Jack Sharkey, Ray Bradbury, Piers Anthony, H. G. Wells, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, Rog Phillips, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Fontenay, Alexei Panshin, H. L. Gold, Raymond E. Banks, James E. Gunn, Fred Saberhagen, Bob Shaw, Richard E. Peck, Theodore Sturgeon, Chad Oliver, George H. Smith, Jerome Bixby, Suzette Haden Elgin, Clifford D. Simak, William Sambrot, Harry Harrison, A. Bertram Chandler, L. J. Stecher Jr., Theodore Cogswell

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The Frankenstein Omnibus

1994

Peter Haining, Mary Shelley, Jane Webb, William Maginn, Herman Melville, Ronald Ross, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Fred T. Jane, W. C. Morrow, J. E. Preston Muddock, E. E. Kellett, Harle Oren Cummins, Merrick, Leonard, Robert S. Carr, Theodore LeBerthon, Henry M. Milner, Francis Edwards Faragoh, John L. Balderston, William James Hurlbut, Robert Muller, Fritz Leiber, Jimmy Sangster, H.P. Lovecraft, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Hervey, Michael Hervey, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Bloch, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison