Make Room! Make Room! (Penguin Science Fiction)

by Harry Harrison

A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, loot and trample for lentil 'steaks' and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the sky.

Written in 1966 and set in 1999, Make Room! Make Room! is a witty and unnerving story about stretching the earth's resources, and the human spirit, to breaking point.

• ISBN10: 014119023X
• ISBN13: 9780141190235
• Publish Date: 5 February 2009 (first published 28 June 1973)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 240
• 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.