Make Room! Make Room! Serialized in Impulse Magazine (3 volumes)
Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! is a classic dystopian novel about overpopulation, set in New York City in 1999, where 35 million inhabitants compete over water rations, living space, and "soylent" burgers. The story mostly follows a detective who is trying to track down the murderer of a notorious city racketeer. Meanwhile, city water rations are shrinking, power generators are failing, and street protests and general unrest seems to be rising, especially when government bodies threaten to legislate population control. A thoughtful work that became the loose basis for the 1973 film Solyent Green by Richard Fleischer, which starred Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson (in his final role). The film deviates quite a bit from the book, though, by famously introducing cannibalism to the plot. Originally serialized in these three volumes (6, 7, and 8) of the UK science fiction magazine, Impulse. This is the true first appearance of Harrison's novel, published in hardcover later the same year by Double Science Fiction.
Softcover. First Edition. London: Roberts & Vinter Ltd, 1966. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (50). #10499.
All 3 volumes are very good or better. Rare set.