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  Meet Harry, at harrison-marketing.com, October 12th, 2006 Though he's never adm... - jabberwacky - A news, press or PR ...
Meet Harry, at harrison-marketing.com, October 12th, 2006 Though he's never adm...
Though he's never admitted it, George has a twin brother by the name of Harry.
Harry is still learning, but he's a spokesman...
www.jabberwacky.com /j2presspr-N6445-Meet-Harry-at-harrison-marketing   (67 words)

  
  Harry Harrison - Celebrity Atheist List
Harry Harrison's short story The Streets of Ashkelon has appeared in more than 30 anthologies and in a dozen or so languages: it is probably the author's most widely published story.
Harrison had had the idea for the story for some time, but never wrote it because he knew there was no market for such a tale.
Harry Harrison is a self-confessed atheist with no sympathy for such attitudes: The Streets of Ashkelon is an angry, and disturbing, story intended to make the reader question assumptions about religious belief.
www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Harry_Harrison   (411 words)

  
  Lata
Harry Harrison, Leon Stover, Stonehenge, Zag³ada Atlantydy, Rebis, Poznañ 1997.
Harry Harrison, M³ot i Krzy¿, czê¶æ pierwsza, Amber, Warszawa 1995.
Harry Harrison, M³ot i Krzy¿, czê¶æ trzecia, Amber, Warszawa 1995.
www.altamagusta.pl /lata.html   (5788 words)

  
 Wydawnictwa
Harry Harrison, Z³ote lata Stalowego Szczura, Warszawa 1994.
Harry Harrison, Stalowy Szczur ¶piewa bluesa, Warszawa 1995.
Harry Harrison, Ant Skalandis, Planeta ¶mierci 4, Warszawa 2000.
www.altamagusta.pl /wydawnictwa.html   (1681 words)

  
 President William Harrison : Health & Medical History
Harrison was a teetotaler in an era when alcoholism was rife.
To say that Harrison was mobbed by office seekers after his inauguration is an understatement:
Harrison gave a two hour inaugural speech on a cold, wet, and blustery March 4.
www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g09.htm   (416 words)

  
 Walter Harrison Law Library
About Us The Walter Harrison Law Library is named after Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison, the Garrick Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law between 1948 and 1964.
There are quiet discussion areas for group study on Levels 2, 3 and 4 of the Walter Harrison Law Library.
The Walter Harrison Law Library provides copying facilities on levels 2 and 4, and network printing on Level 2.
www.library.uq.edu.au /law   (1419 words)

  
 Harry Harrison:  Stars and Stripes Forever
Although set firmly during the war, Harry Harrison's novel Stars and Stripes Forever, the first of a proposed trilogy, examines the political changes caused by his point of divergence.
Harrison is dealing, for the most part, with figures well-known (at least in broad outline) to his readers.
Although Harrison includes a few battle scenes, he does so only to help provide some background for the story, not because he is particularly interested in describing the battles of the Civil War.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/harrison.html   (546 words)

  
 Harry Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Harry Harrison’s utterly believable portrayal of an alternate first world war, with its iron ships, its automatic guns and its trenches, is both chillingly fascinating and unputdownably readable.
Harry Harrison has created an utterly believable alternate world with an enormous cast of characters both historical and fictional, locked in a war that could have changed our world.
Harry Harrison has entertained, amused and captivated the readers of science fiction for more than a quarter of a century with the adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/harryharrison.html   (1348 words)

  
 Harry Harrison Summary
Harrison's first novel, Deathworld (1960), begins a trilogy dealing with Jason dinAlt, a gambler, and the natives of the planet Pyrrhus, where the flora and fauna are rendered increasingly deadly by their psychic sensitivity to human animosities.
Harrison is now much better known for his writing, particularly his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the Stainless Steel Rat series and the novel Bill, the Galactic Hero (which satirises Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers).
Harrison for a time was closely identified with Brian Aldiss and the pair collaborated on a series of anthology projects.
www.bookrags.com /Harry_Harrison   (1317 words)

  
 REELRADIO - The Larry Ware Collection - Harry Harrison: When The Red Light Goes On, I Talk
Harry Harrison, New York's beloved Morning Mayor, began his radio career in the early 1950's in Chicago, IL as a volunteer at FM educational station WBEZ.
Although Harry calls his audience his "radio friends," they are more like a family in which he takes a personal interest.
I can personally say that Harry is truly the same person off-air as he appears to be on the air and am very proud of the fact that he had his beginnings right here in the Midwest and in my own hometown of Peoria, IL
www.reelradio.com /lw/lwhh.html   (849 words)

  
  New York Radio Personality Harry Harrison Remembers
Harry Harrison was the morning air personality at WABC from 1968 until 1979.
One famous Harry Harrison WABC story was that he once received a letter from a lady who gave him up for Lent as a sign of great sacrifice.
Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy were back to back air personalities on both WABC and WCBS-FM for a total of 24 years.
www.musicradio77.com /harry.html   (1339 words)

  
  Harry Harrison (radio)
Harry Harrison is a once-popular New York radio personality.
Harry next became program director at WPEO in Peoria, Illinois, and hosted their morning show.
WPEO became the top-rated station in six months, and Harry, well known in the Midwest, was recruited by New York City's WMCA[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Harry_Harrison_(radio).html   (149 words)

  
 Biography of Harry Harrison @ SciFi-Fantasy-Info.com
Harrison is now much better known for his writing, particularly his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the Stainless Steel Rat series and the novel Bill, the Galactic Hero (which satirises Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers).
Harrison for a time was closely identified with Brian Aldiss and the pair collaborated on a series of anthology projects.
Harry Harrison is a writer of fairly liberal worldview.
www.scifi-fantasy-info.com /harry-harrison.html   (493 words)

  
 Harry Harrison Trivia - Harry Harrison Facts - Harry Harrison Notes
Harry's mother was a teacher until she married; his father was a printer.
Harry appeared as a guest at the Comic Expo, which was held in Brighton, England, on November 19 and 20, 2005.
Harry Harrison was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in Lawrence, Kansas, on July 9, 2004.
www.tv.com /harry-harrison/person/293414/trivia.html   (381 words)

  
 Harry Harrison
Harrison, who has worked for three of the big radio stations in New York, is one of the few biggest jocks ever heard in New York and his further advantage is that he worked there almost 4,5 decades in a row in one of the biggest towns in the world.
Of course from then on Harry Harrison also became a part of the WMCA Good Guys, as the team of deejays on the station became known and which was promoted in a lot of outside promotional material as well in the jingle package of the station.
About his time on WMCA Harrison told once in an interview that it was one of thousands memories: 'We had the most beautiful promotion spots, we had all kind of small ideas to get the attention from and to the audience.
www.offshore-radio.de /harrison.htm   (2901 words)

  
 HARRY HARRISON: 50 IN 50
Harry Harrison's ultimate short story collection is now out in a trade paperback edition thanks to TOR.
Despite the fact that Harrison is best-known today for his brand of SF comedy (as seen in the later RAT books, and in all the BILL books) 50 IN 50 showcases the diversity of the writer's interests.
Harrison, though not necessarily a household name, is an exciting writer with the rare talent of consistently creating characters that really get under the reader's skin.
www.mania.com /37106.html   (632 words)

  
 Harry Harrison
And I believe that anyone who thinks Harry Harrison is not a 'serious' SF author and therefore dismisses anything of his without the promise of laughter is doing themselves a serious disservice.
I hope for Harry Harrison's sake it is the most worthless piece of crap he has ever penned because if there is worse in his catalogue I for one have absolutely no desire to see it.
Harrison's work, don't get me wrong, and I have a great respect for it, but I could not recommend his entire RAT series on the basis of TSSRST Blues.
www.albedo1.com /html/harry_harrison.html   (1866 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Stars & Stripes Forever: English Books: Harry Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Admirers of Harrison's West of Eden trilogy or his magisterial Dark Ages collaboration with John Holm won't be pleased by this disappointing novel of an alternate Civil War.
Harrison's premise is that an actual historical event (the seizure of two Confederate diplomats from the British steamer Trent) leads to open war between Britain and the North.
Harrison has thrown in some original touches, such as leading roles for John Stuart Mill and William Tecumseh Sherman.
www.amazon.de /Stars-Stripes-Forever-Harry-Harrison/dp/product-description/0345409337   (684 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: West of Eden: Books: Harry Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Harrison develops an absolutely different civilization: no fire is known to them; technology is based on biology; the Ylane are not able to lie, due to their very special way to communicate among themselves.
Harrison's prose style is not especially good and his characters, especially his human characters, seem a little flat, but his world makes up for it.
Harry Harrison suggests what the world might have been like had the latter come to pass - his intellegent dinosaurs are the dominant species over most of the planet (Eurasia, it's implied).
www.amazon.ca /West-Eden-Harry-Harrison/dp/0743487184   (1545 words)

  
 Harry Harrison
Harrison has been the editor of scores of science fiction magazines, and (in collaboration with Brian Aldiss) he has put together numerous science fiction anthologies -- including nine annual Best SF collections, and three collections of the best science fiction of the decade for the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
Harrison reports that military life was so dull that he taught himself to read and write the artificial international language, just to pass the time.
Harrison later admitted that he used the novel as a formulaic template for the next several books, all of which were commercially successful.
www.nndb.com /people/742/000023673   (1149 words)

  
 Geophysicists - E. R. (Harry) Harrison
The source of the sound was Earnest R. (Harry) Harrison's sleeve air gun, firing every 10 seconds at a twentieth of its normal operating pressure in a transparent water tank.
To be aware of the contribution of another participating geophysicist at the convention, you would have to visit a specific exhibit, or a lecture hall at a specific time, but to be aware of Harry Harrison's contribution, all you needed to do was to stand anywhere in the exposition hall, and you'd hear it.
Harry Harrison solved both these problems by designing a magnetic sensor that would not only determine if each gun had fired but through automatic computerized interrogation, precisely when.
www.mssu.edu /seg-vm/bio_e__r___harry__harrison.html   (635 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden.
In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendents of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.
He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents, the Yilane, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/HarryHarrisoneBooks.htm   (815 words)

  
 Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, March 12, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novella Make Room!
Harrison started working in the science fiction field as an illustrator before becoming an editor.
Harrison and Aldiss did much in the 1970s to raise the standards of criticism in the field.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Harry_Harrison.php   (557 words)

  
 Locus Online: Harry Harrison interview excerpts
Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, served in the US Army Air Corps in the '40s, and worked as a comics illustrator before turning to writing.
Harrison's first story, "Rock Diver", appeared in 1951, and his first novel Deathworld (1960) established him as a writer of smart, fast-moving adventure fiction.
Harrison is more serious in his Eden trilogy, in which dinosaurs developed intelligence and came into conflict with early humans, beginning with West of Eden (1984).
www.locusmag.com /2006/Issues/03Harrison.html   (875 words)

  
 WABC Musicradio 77
Harry Harrison did the "Morning Drive" show on WABC from 1968 until 1979.
Former WABC personality Harry Harrison did his final show on WCBS-FM on March 19, 2003.
Harry spent a total of 44 years on New York radio on WMCA, WABC and WCBS-FM.
www.musicradio77.com   (1863 words)

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