Millennial Reviews XXXIV: Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (1966)
Make Room! Make Room!
By Harry Harrison
17 Feb, 2000
Millennial Reviews
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Make Room! Make Room!
Harry Harrison
Berkley, 1966
224 pages
Synopsis: It is 1999. NYC has 35 million people [although the back cover of my copy says it has 40 million people], about 5x times what it has in our time. Even America is suffering under the burden of overpopulation with 350 million people [An excess of 72 million over the actual value in 1999] and all the predictions of Paul Ehrlich [who wrote the introduction for my edition] have come true. This is not terribly surprising, as this book is an exploration of the consequences of those predictions coming true.