哈里·哈里森

哈里·哈里森（Harry Harrison，1925年3月12日—2012年8月15日），美国著名科幻作家，生于美国康涅狄格州斯坦福。著名作品有《死亡世界》系列、《不锈钢老鼠》系列、《伊甸园三部曲》等。他曾第一任世界科幻小说协会主席。

生平

1925年，哈里森出生在美国康涅狄格州斯坦福。

1943年，哈里森加入美国陆军航空队，他担任狙击手、军事警察和炮术讲师。

20世纪50年代，哈里森开始创作漫画和科幻小说。

1965年，哈里森和英国作家布赖恩·奥尔迪斯联合办了世界上第一个严肃的科幻文学批评杂志《科幻地平线》。

1979年，哈里森再度和布赖恩·奥尔迪斯在都柏林创建了世界科幻大会（WSF）。

2012年，哈里森在英国英格兰去世，87岁。

风格

哈里森的作品风格严谨，但是也有部分幽默和反讽的作品，他擅长使用“模仿、致敬或解构传统科幻冒险剧”等手法写作。

作品

《死亡世界》

《让地方！让地方！》

《宇宙英雄比尔》

《不锈钢老鼠》系列，内蒙古少儿出版社，文彬编译，2002年，ISBN 9787531215035。

Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said of Harrison's work: "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart." Novelist Christopher Priest wrote in an obituary:

Harrison was an extremely popular figure in the SF world, renowned for being amiable, outspoken and endlessly amusing. His quickfire, machine-gun delivery of words was a delight to hear, and a reward to unravel: he was funny and self-aware, he enjoyed reporting the follies of others, he distrusted generals, prime ministers and tax officials with sardonic and cruel wit, and above all he made plain his acute intelligence and astonishing range of moral, ethical and literary sensibilities.

Career

Before becoming an editor and writer, Harrison started in the science fiction field as an illustrator, notably with EC Comics' two science fiction comic book series, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. In these and other comic book stories, he most often worked with Wally Wood. Wood usually inked over Harrison's layouts, and the two freelanced for several publishers and genres, including westerns and horror comics. He and Wood split up their partnership in 1950 and went their separate ways. Harrison used house pen names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit magazines and published other fiction under the pen names Felix Boyd and Hank Dempsey (see Personal Life below). Harrison ghostwrote Vendetta for the Saint, one of the long-running series of novels featuring Leslie Charteris' character The Saint. Harrison also wrote for syndicated comic stripsincluding ghostwriting The Saint comic strip from 1955 to 1960, and wrote several stories for the character Rick Random.

His first short story, "Rock Diver", was published in the February 1951 issue of Worlds Beyond, edited by Damon Knight; the magazine had previously published his illustrations. While in New York, he socialized at the Hydra Club, an organization of New York's science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, and Theodore Sturgeon.

Harrison has become much better known for his later writing, particularly for his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the Stainless Steel Rat series and his novel Bill, the Galactic Hero—which parodied the works of Isaac Asimov. Priest wrote:

His most popular and best-known work is contained in fast-moving parodies, homages or even straight reconstructions of traditional space-opera adventures. He wrote several named series of these: notably the Deathworld series (three titles, starting in 1960), the Stainless Steel Rat books (12 titles, from 1961), and the sequence of books about Bill, the Galactic Hero (seven titles, from 1965). These books all present interesting contradictions: while being exactly what they might superficially seem to be, unpretentious action novels with a strong streak of humour, they are also satirical, knowing, subversive, unapologetically anti-military, anti-authority and anti-violence. Harrison wrote such novels in the idiom of the politically conservative hack writer, but in reality he had a liberal conscience and a sharp awareness of the lack of literary values in so much of the SF he was parodying.