Make Room! Make Room!
- 233
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Make Room! Make Room!” is a bleak, tense novel about a world choking on its own population growth while a wealthy few hoard what is left. Harry Harrison sets a police investigation in a hopelessly overcrowded New York. Readers drawn to science fiction about social questions, such as who gets to eat and who decides, will find it pointed.
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About the book
Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of both unchecked population growth on society and the hoarding of resources by a wealthy minority. It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 55 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 7 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 48 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is Make Room! Make Room!?
It has 233 pages — shorter than 89% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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