An Overpopulated New York: “Make Room! Make Room!” by Harry Harrison – Thornfield Hall
Harry Harrison’s 1966 novel, Make Room! Make Room!, was the inspiration for the movie, Soylent Green. The film, however, is only loosely based on Harrison’s many-faceted novel. Make Room! Make Room! is a good-bad book. The ideas are brilliant, the writing uneven. Harrison has essentially written a treatise, disguised as a novel, on the consequences…