The movie is quite capable of sustaining the grim mood set by the novel. So I guess it’s more than appropriate to talk about it a little right now. In 1973 the novel’s movie adaptation was released, ‘Soylent Green.’ And it’s plot set… these days. Somehow the world survived past 1999 in a slightly more reasonable state than the one described in the book. I think it’s not a coincidence that the novel’s protagonist is a tired policeman trying to serve and protect the unserviceable and unprotectable. It has the same feeling of suffocating coldness and indifference, the corruption of authorities, and the desperation of the people in the face of cruel circumstances. Interestingly, the book is clearly influenced by the noir crime stories of the thirties by Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler. All action in the novel is set in New York City in 1999, crowded with 35 million inhabitants trapped in it. His dystopia is different: a lingering, dreary nightmare of everyday routine hopelessness and despair. Harry Harrison joined in the process.īut he did not set out on apocalyptic visions of global proportions.
Dick, Clifford Simak, and many others used their talent to draw pictures of the bleak future that will await us if nothing gonna change. The science fiction writers naturally established on the frontier of this movement. Suddenly, many people came up with the idea that perhaps endless population growth combined with booming consummation maybe not be such a successful strategy for the survival of civilization homo sapiens. It happened when on the wave of the “hippie” movement, the topic of ecological problems and the potential depletion of resources was raised for the first time. ‘Make room! Make room!’, a book by Harry Harrison, was first published in 1966.
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