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.
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Bill, the Galactic Hero On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasures
17 editions - first published in 1965 -
Make Room! Make Room!
14 editions - first published in 1966 -
Planet of the Damned
12 editions - first published in 1900 -
West of Eden
11 editions - first published in 1984 -
Deathworld
11 editions - first published in 1960 -
Deathworld trilogy
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The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
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Skyfall
9 editions - first published in 1976 -
The stainless steel rat saves the world
9 editions - first published in 1972 -
The adventures of the stainless steel rat
9 editions - first published in 1970 -
Captive universe
9 editions - first published in 1969 -
Planet of no return
8 editions - first published in 1981 -
The adventures of the stainless steel rat
8 editions - first published in 1970 -
Return to Eden
8 editions - first published in 1988 -
Best Sf
8 editions - first published in 1971 -
The stainless steel rat wants you
7 editions - first published in 1978 -
The Stainless Steel Rat
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Tunnel through the deeps
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The stainless steel rat for president
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Stonehenge: where Atlantis died
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One step from earth
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The Adventures of Stainless Steel Rat
5 editions - first published in 1981 -
The Turing option: a novel
5 editions - first published in 1992 -
Great Balls of Fire: History of Sex in Science Fiction Illustration.
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The men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T
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The stainless steel rat gets drafted
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The Lifeship
5 editions - first published in 1976 -
Winter in Eden: book two in the West of Eden trilogy
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Star smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
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Homeworld
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The hammer and the cross
4 editions - first published in 1992 -
The best of Harry Harrison
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One king's way
4 editions - first published in 1994 -
The California iceberg
4 editions - first published in 1975 -
The Jupiter plague
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The Qe2 Is Missing
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Starworld
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Galactic dreams
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Deathworld 2: a sequel to Deathworld.
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Starworld
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Montezuma's revenge
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The Stainless Steel Rat sings the blues
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Rebel in time
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Deathworld 3
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Galactic dreams
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Spaceship medic
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In our hands, the stars
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50 in 50: Fifty stories for fifty years!
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Stainless steel visions
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Invasion of Earth
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Invasion--earth
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Wheelworld
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King and emperor
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Plague from space
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The stainless steel rat joins the circus
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
The Daleth effect: a science fiction novel.
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus
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Lifeboat
2 editions - first published in 1978 -
One King's Way (Hammer & the Cross S.)
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
Nebula Award Stories: 2
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Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains
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Bill, the galactic hero on the planet of robot slaves
2 editions - first published in 1989 -
Bill, the Galactic hero ... on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell
2 editions - first published in 1992 -
You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat: an interactive game book
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
The John W. Campbell memorial anthology
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
War with the robots: science-fiction stories.
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Four for the Future: an anthology on the themes of sacrifice and redemption.
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To the stars
2 editions - first published in 1981 -
Planet story
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
Stars & Stripes Forever: a novel of alternate history
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
IF Worlds of Science Fiction: 1954 January (Volume 2, No. 6)
2 editions - first published in 1954 -
Stars and Stripes Triumphant
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
More Penguin science fiction
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
A stainless steel rat is born
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Invasion: Earth
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Ahead of time
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
A stainless steel trio
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Queen Victoria's revenge
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Wheelworld
2 editions - first published in 1981 -
The turing option
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
Nova 2
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
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There Won't Be War
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Best S/f 1972
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Astounding
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Galactic Hero Brains
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The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
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Return to Eden
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War With the Robots
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Two tales and 8 tomorrows
1 edition - first published in 1965 -
Fantasticheskai︠a︡ saga: Dalet-ėffekt
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Bill, the Galactic Hero in Planet Robo
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West of Eden
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Best S/f 1970
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Die Stahlratte fährt zur Hölle
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Wheelworld to the Stars 2
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Captive Universe
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Winter in Eden
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Prime Number
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Homeworld to the Stars, Volume 3: Starworld
1 edition - first published in 1988

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