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Acclaimed science-fiction writer Harry Harrison published over 40 novels, including the West of Eden trilogy, the popular Stainless Steel Rat series, Make Room! Make Room!, and the graphic novels Death World and Planet of the Damned. His novels have been translated into over 25 languages. In 1973 he was honored with the Nebula Award and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America ( SFWA ) in 2009.
In Planet of the Damned, Brion Brandd, the winner of The Twenties, a kind of planet-wide Olympics of both mind and body, barely has time to savor his victory when he is called away by a previous winner to help save Dis, a planet that seems intent on its own destruction and the destruction of it's neighbor. When Brion and his friend Lea arrive on Dis, they are confronted by baffling questions. What planetary evolution has caused such a difference in the inhabitants? Why are one set of people deeply connected with the planet and one totally unconnected to anything but dominance and destruction? He must find the answersto these questions and find the link essential to saving both worlds while racing against a doomsday clock. It will take all their skill, courage, and empathy to do this.
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About Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (1925-2012) was drafted
into the Army after finishing school and served in World War II, where he
learned both to shoot guns and repair analogue computers. Leaving the Army at
the end of the war, Harrison teamed up with Wally Wood and produced
professional comic book art. When the comic book boom came to an end, Harrison
moved from drawing to writing. In 1957 his story, “The Stainless Steel Rat” was
published in Astounding, and introduced a character which would
stay with him (and readers) for the next forty-odd years. In 1975 Harrison had
his first brush with Hollywood when his novel, Make Room! Make Room! was used for the basis of Soylent Green.
His novels have also been successfully adapted for other media: radio plays and
readings, a board game, at least one computer game, and, taking us full-circle,
comic books, most notably 2000AD’s adaptations of the Stainless
Steel Rat books.
In
a career spanning sixty years, Harrison produced more than a
hundred short stories, edited over thirty anthologies, and published more than sixty
novels.