Harry Harrison

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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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Arm of the Law
Representative edition published 2022
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द मिस्डप्लेस बैटलशिप
Representative edition published 2021
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The Stainless Steel Rat
Representative edition published 2021
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The EC Archives
Representative edition published 2020
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Little Richard
Representative edition published 2020
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Gary Numan
Representative edition published 2020
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The Misplaced Battleship
Representative edition published 2019
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Queen Victoria's revenge
Representative edition published 2019
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Deathworld trilogy
Representative edition published 2019
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The K-Factor
Representative edition published 2018
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Fantastic Stories Presents Science Fiction Super Pack #1
Representative edition published 2018
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Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2
Representative edition published 2018
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Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2
Representative edition published 2018
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Hell's cartographers : some personal histories of science fiction writers
Representative edition published 2018
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Worlds of If Super Pack #1
Representative edition published 2018
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Harry Harrison Super Pack
Representative edition published 2018
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Black Infinity
Representative edition published 2018
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Deathworld 2
Representative edition published 2018
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The Repairman
Representative edition published 2017
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The Robot MEGAPACK®: 19 Gear-Grinding Robot Stories!
Representative edition published 2017
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You Know You're a Dad
Representative edition published 2017
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Sense of Obligation
Representative edition published 2017
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The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned
Representative edition published 2016
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The Harry Harrison Megapack: 12 Classics of Science Fiction, including ROBOT JUSTICE, DEATHWORLD, and DEATHWORLD II
Representative edition published 2016
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