Name: Make Room! Make Room!
ISBN: 9780553564587

Harry Harrison

Sometime in the dark future of urban jungles, riots, food shortages, and senseless violence, a cynical New York City detective embarks on a desperate hunt for the truth. Reprint.

Make Room! Make Room!

Sarah Sammis

Make Room! Make Room! is an excellent social commentary akin to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Wells's Time Machine. Harrison builds a New York city with a population 6 times what it was during the last "Dust Bowl" of the Great Depression and sees how things would work (or not work) with massive over population, dwindling water supplies, lack of fuel, global warming (though Harrison doesn't call it that), and a shortage of food. These crises form the back drop for a cop who is trying to solve a high profile murder at the close of 1999. While Harrison's model is exaggerated, all of the problems he describes do exist and we are starting to see the effects: rising oil prices, melting ice caps, huge fires in the bread basket, expensive health care and rising housing costs.

Well written, interesting story, makes you think! 

Teara 

Dani

** spoiler alert **
           La verdad que me esperaba más coincidencias con la película basada en este libro pero luego de leer un poco más en Internet me enteré que cambiaron bastante el argumento para insertar el canibalismo a la trama. De todas maneras me gustó mucho cómo trataron la problemática del control de natalidad.

A stark, unbridled vision of planet Earth on the brink of collapse, and the inspiration behind the classic sci-fi film, Soylent Green. At the close of the twentieth century, a planet overwhelmed by rampant overpopulation teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, 35 million people are squeezed into its packed boroughs, scrambling like rats for the world’s dwindling resources. The only food available is a product called Soylent. And while the government tries to maintain order, the rich get richer and the poor stay underfoot. Finding a killer in this broken world is one hell of a job. But that’s exactly what detective Andy Rusch has been assigned to do. If he can stay alive long enough, he might just solve the biggest case he’s ever been on—unless humanity finally fulfills its promise and destroys itself first.