Sci-fi Writer Harry Harrison Dies At 87

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Thu, 08/16/2012 - 5:18am

Popular science-fiction author Harry Harrison, whose book "Make Room! Make Room!" was the basis for the 1973 film "Soylent Green," about a futuristic society and its fictional food, has died, his publisher said Wednesday. He was 87.

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