Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison, born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, was an American science fiction writer who lived for many years in Ireland and the United Kingdom. He is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat, a space adventure series, and for Make Room! Make Room! (1966), a novel about an overcrowded New York City that became the basis for the film Soylent Green. Harrison helped found the Irish Science Fiction Association and served as co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group with Brian Aldiss. He died in 2012.