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Bezig met laden... Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!: A Memoirdoor Harry Harrison
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The first two-thirds of the Harrison's own account of his life and career are the strongest portions as he describes the milieu he came out of, how his exposure to military life in World War II continued to grate on his sensibilities long after the experience and what it took to become a full-time writer while at the same time raising a family. Much of the charm of the book is Harrison's adventures in overseas living, driven by having come to dislike New York City and wanting to keep his stereotypical Jewish mother at arm's length. The last third dealing with experiences as an established professional are a little less interesting, though that might be a comment on Harrison having run out of time; his last touches were apparently dictated to his daughter literally on his death bed! A giant among … giants Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! A Memoir by Harry Harrison (Tor, $26.99). The venerable science fiction writer Harry Harrison, who died in 2012, is most remembered in American pop culture as the genius behind Soylent Green, the 1973 Charlton Heston movie with the famous line, “Soylent Green is people!” The title of the novel is Make Room! Make Room! (and it’s available in a low-priced ebook), which is the word play Harrison took for the title of his memoir. He did much more than just write one excellent book about the inevitable effect of unsustainable human growth and the concomitant exacerbation of the class hierarchy. Harrison infused all his science fiction with a sly sense of humor, engaging an international audience, and promoting fan conferences. This posthumous—and unfinished—memoir has a chronological first half, that reads like a travelogue as the notoriously footloose Harrison drags his family all over the world, and a selection of essays—including a fantastic one about the filming of Soylent Green—that he didn’t live long enough to integrate into the memoir. While it’s a bit uneven, Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! offers intriguing insights into the prescient mind of one of science fiction’s greats. Reviewed on Lit/Rant: www.litrant.tumblr.com geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Recollections of one of the grand masters of science fiction, on his storied career as a celebrated author and on his relationships with other luminaries in the field. This memoir is filled with all the humor and irreverence Harry Harrison's readers have come to expect from the New York Times bestselling author of the uproarious Stainless Steel Rat series. This also includes black and white photos spanning his sixty-year career"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Harrison had a wit. I didn't know he was an Esperanto aficionado ("I speak Esperanto like a native, or as Damon Knight once said, 'Harry speaks the worst English and the best Esperanto I have ever heard.'" - "native"!) And picked up many languages in the countries he lived in. Amazing and envious ability that.
Harrison has words of wisdom for writers plying their trade: And wisdom of the image writers face... When freelancing and living with his in-laws after a time living in Europe, interruptions would ruin a day's writing because the thoughts would fly: "since you're not doing anything..." Sigh.
The Harrisons moved a lot, and having escaped the in-laws with a move to California, Harry found himself a surprising island of reason in Coronado: Sad, and nearly true, but not all Navy are that way, Mr. Harrison...not all Navy. Still, when Brian Aldiss visited him, he observed I wonder what Mr. Aldiss would say about the depth of today's American culture?
I was glad to see Harrison's - and the class he was teaching - assessment of E.E. "Doc" Smith: And Harrison thought him a nice guy...just not a writer. And yet Yep.
On the atrocity his story Make Room! Make Room! became, "Soylent Green", and the filming, he said of one scene Nailed Heston!
More on writing, Harrison says of peer reactions to his Stainless Steel Rat series And his essay on how he developed West of Eden (not included in the main body of the book because Harrison died before they could work it in)... a lot of getting facts right. Impressive, he says he had 30,000 words of notes before even starting the novel!
In addition to more Harrison books on my horizon, he also mentioned a book by Chapman Cohen that I have to hunt down. Meanwhile, full circle, a delightful read. ( )