Another great gone - R.I.P. Harry Harrison by Lemming

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Another great gone - R.I.P. Harry Harrison

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:09 PM

> http://harryharrison.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/harry-harrison-1925-2012/

Well. Feck.

Great indeed. One of my favourite authors. Many many happy hilarious and sometimes moving memories from so many of his books. Surprised him at WorldCon 2005 with a copy of Planet Story to sign (was also after Jim Burns, but never found him) and was glad I got the chance to say hi and shake his hand. Typically Harry... (as I understand) everyone else on the panel had bottled water on the table at 10am, Harry had a beer in front of him :-)

And another

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el-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green

Sad news. 1st Ray Bradbury, now Harry, 2 defining and well loved authors of my youth (and ever after!) that made me love SF forever. Oh and of course, Harry also made me laugh like a train :-)

Raising a glass....

Nick

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:59 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Harry was great at everything. Anthology and magazine editor, book critic, as well as writing science fiction, fantasy, alternate history and space opera. One of the best (and funniest) examples of the latter is "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers."

So many great books and great characters. Bill the Galactic Hero, Slippery Jim diGriz (the Stainless Steel Rat), the Deathworld trilogy, the Homeworld trilogy, West of Eden, Stars and Stripes, the Hammer and the Cross.

Godspeed, my man. We'll keep reading your stuff for many years to come.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:36 PM

FREMDFIRMA

NOoooooo!

He will be sorely, sorely missed - ole Slippery Jim DiGriz was one of my personal heros!

-F

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Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:48 AM

LEMMING

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Harry was great at everything. Anthology and magazine editor, book critic, as well as writing science fiction, fantasy, alternate history and space opera. One of the best (and funniest) examples of the latter is "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers."

So many great books and great characters. Bill the Galactic Hero, Slippery Jim diGriz (the Stainless Steel Rat), the Deathworld trilogy, the Homeworld trilogy, West of Eden, Stars and Stripes, the Hammer and the Cross.

Godspeed, my man. We'll keep reading your stuff for many years to come.

Oh buddah yes, Star Smashers had me helpless with laughter many times when I first read it and gave many satisfying chuckles in the years following. The Stainless Steel Rat will always be one of my favorite characters in SF of any variety.

Tell you what, raised more that one glass to the man last night (good stuff too, 15 yr old Glen Morangie, 46% ABV, not exactly Sirian Panther Sweat, but the effect is probably similar :-)

I guess the sort of nice thing is that there are still a fair few of his books (he was pretty prolific) that I have yet to read and enjoy.

Nick

The Signal < www.serenityfirefly.com>;

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Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:10 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Truly sorry to see this headline when I signed in today.
Farewell, sir, and we'll try to be sure your credits aren't completely cut off at every ATM everywhere, LOL.

bun

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Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:30 AM

ANONYMOUSE

I only heard the news a few days ago. Great comic SF genius. The Technicolor Time Machine still has me in stitches when I read it, as does Bill, The Galactic Hero - hilarious military satire:

"I wonder what the food will be like?" (this is after boot camp; the troopers have been rushed into combat)
"It is completely impossible that it could be any worse." - this before being served half a cupful of water for lunch, i.e. all the nutrients necessary to sustain life indefinitely, but no substance whatsoever!

"Name and rank?"
"Bill, recruit, untrained, unskilled, spacesick."

- and as for the Chingers, and the lies the military told about them - seven inches tall instead of seven feet, can't help but feel there's something not quite right there... :)

Dehydrated water - even Douglas Adams couldn't have come up with that one! (Just add water; voila! Water!)

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:46 AM

GORRAMGROUPIE

I cut my sci-fi teeth on Jim DiGriz, have been a fan of Harry Harrison forever. Always wanted to learn Esperanto because of him, never really had the chance though. Although I don't believe in drugs, etc, have always loved this from one of the books (quote not exact, books are packed away pending move):
"I took some uppers to get my thoughts going, then some downers to get myself off the ceiling."
I will miss his work, and yet another great that I will never get to meet. Asimov died before I was old enough to want to meet people, Bradbury, Heinlein, Herbert, and on and on.
To my heroes - CLINK!.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:27 PM

JO753

rezident owtsidr

He wuz my fave author. I must hav read the original SSR trilogy book a dozen timez. A bunch uv rereadz for To The Stars, Deathworld, Bill TGH, also. Read most uv hiz books, but there are still sum left.

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