![]() Rather than a dystopian New York there's a world city and no apparent mineral resource problem. I can't help contrasting this book with in which a future population of 1 Trillion people is postulated. It's also a bit of a shame that the only pleasant female character is the most minor one. This spoiled matters somewhat by being too overt and heavy handed. The story is told quite seriously which may come as a surprise to folks familiar with Harrison's OTT spoof/satires starring the Stainless Steel Rat and the points are made deftly - except towards the end when one of the characters turns into a talking head and starts handing out lectures about contraception, Catholicism and politics. It's an odd book tackling the question of over-population back in the 1960s when it seems to have first been taken seriously (though not by policy makers, plainly). 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. Soylent steaks consist of soybean and lentil. Harrison did not envision a society fed with the products of human remains. Sounds like Harrison only got the date wrong. The film was loosely based on science fiction writer Harry Harrrison‘s novel Make Room Make Room, which had been published six years earlieremphasis on loosely. ![]() Shanties, tent cities, people living in ships and cars that can't move because there's no more oil. ![]() ![]() It's the future - 1999 in fact! Over 7 billion humans, 35 million of them in New York City where a cop, a gangster's moll and a street kid all collide on their no longer separate searches for food and water security. ![]()
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