Harry Harrison, 87, The Man Who Invented Soylent Green

“Flights of fancy were Harrison’s stock in trade. A coal-fired flying boat? A submarine to Mars? No problem. He imagined taking a time machine to the future and finding no one there. In his 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room!, which was translated to the screen as Soylent Green in 1973, he painted a dystopian nightmare of too many people scrambling for too few resources.”