Brian Aldiss - My friend Harry Harrison (53/79)

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Writer Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) was best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. 'Non-Stop', his first science fiction novel, was published in 1958. His many award-winning titles include 'Hothouse', 'The Saliva Tree' and 'Helliconia Spring'. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2014]

TRANSCRIPT: I had a great American friend, Harry Harrison – Harry was marvellous.

Harry… just to sketch you in with Harry's background. Harry came from a very poor American family in New York, and he was a cartoonist for a science fiction magazine, but then he decided he would write a novel. He wrote a novel called 'Deathworld', and he offered it to the editor of 'Astounding' and in those days, 'Astounding' was the prince of the magazines edited by a man learned in science, called John W Campbell. John W Campbell bought 'Deathworld', paid Harry for it, and Harry took the money to a travel agent, and he and his wife and the children came over to England to start a new life.

And Harry and I became very close because we had the same kind of difficulties with life, you appreciate.