Make Room! Make Room!: The Classic Novel of an Overpopulated Future, (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This is another novel set in the future (1999, written in 1966), looking at the effects of over-population. The New York of 1999 has a population of 35 million, one tenth of the population of the United States, in a world where the population is 7 billion (what is actually became a little later i...

from ptdilloway

This book really bears no resemblance to the movie "Soylent Green." The biggest twist of the movie (Soylent Green is people) does not happen in the book. Really there's very little mention of Soylent Green at all. Mostly this is about overpopulation. It seems quaint now in that it's 1999, there a...

from smichaelwilson

Those familiar with the famous film adaptation of this novel - Soylent Green (1973) - who then read the book won't recognize much as far as plot goes. Make Room, Make Room was Harry Harrison's literary warning of the dangers the global society faces from overpopulation, told through the events ex...

from jkdavies

I don't really know what I expected from this book, not having read it before or seen the film, but having seen clips or articles of people talking about it. It was a brilliant dystopian picture, totally believable, horrible yet not too horrible. I had somehow got it into my head that cannibalism...

from flexatone

I really wouldn't call Make Room! Make Room! suspenseful. It is more of a postcard glimpse of an overpopulated future. The format here is future-noir, the dialog is unfortunately cliche, and the scope is that of a long-form short story, rather than a fully-fledged novel. I love the idea of reimag...