Make Room! Make Room! (Penguin Science Fiction)

by Harry Harrison

'Revelatory. Harry Harrison's novel about Earth on the edge of disaster is both bracing and cathartic ... impressively prescient' Guardian

The planet's population has exploded and resources are stretched to breaking point. And, in a sweltering, overcrowded New York City of 35 million desperate inhabitants, a police detective must try to solve a murder. The basis of the cult film Soylent Green, this eerily prophetic novel is a nightmarish vision of a world in meltdown.

'A cautionary tale of what might happen if American consumption goes unchecked' Los Angeles Times

'An author with a serious purpose and a subversive wit' Christopher Priest

• ISBN10: 0241507707
• ISBN13: 9780241507704
• Publish Date: 3 June 2021 (first published 28 June 1973)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cameron Trost]

A noir detective story and yet so much more. We follow a select cast of characters across the city of New York in 1999 (as imagined by the author in 1966) and are shown an entire planet at the the brink of disaster. This dystopian novel of an overpopulated world running out of resources is more pertinent with every passing year. Harry Harrison may have missed the mark with 1999, but the turmoil he evokes is chillingly familiar today.