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.

First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system--operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence--and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future.

A classic of dystopian SF—the basis for the movie Soylent Green—returns to print

Michael Rogers - Library Journal

Harrison presents a world drowning in its own population. Set in New York City, whose numbers have swelled to 35 million (sometimes it feels like that now), the story revolves around police detective Andy Rusch, who is on the trail of a killer determined to reduce the citizenry one at a time. This 1966 novel was the basis for the 1973 Charlton Heston vehicle Soylent Green.

Harry Harrison, author of innumerable science fiction novels and stories, divides his time between Ireland and California.