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Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 Science Fiction novel by Harry Harrison.It's set in the Crapsack World of New York City in the (then) far-future year of 1999, a world beset by severe overpopulation and environmental collapse, where a bland artificial food called soylent (made from soy and lentils) is the best thing most people ever get to eat.When wealthy racketeer "Big Mike" O'Brien is killed, NYPD detective Andy Rusch is assigned to investigate the murder – a daunting task, in a city of 35 million inhabitants. Rusch finds himself getting romantically involved with the murdered man's concubine, Shirl. Meanwhile, the killer – a poor, teenage petty criminal named Billy Chung – attempts to elude capture.It is now best-known as the inspiration for the film Soylent Green. (The famous secret of Soylent Green was invented for the movie, and isn't in the book.) | |
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Eat the Dog: "Leg of dog" is one of the rare delicacies offered at a black-market butcher shop. | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament: Earth's fate as a whole. | |
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We Will Use Manual Labour in the Future: The few people who even have jobs anyway, there doesn't appear to be any sort of automation anymore. | |
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Post-Peak Oil: Cities effectively become their own totally isolated city states when the oil becomes too rare to use. The only form of long-distance transport mentioned are large freighters (shipping food to the millions effectively trapped in cities); on the local level, motorized transit has been replaced with human-powered "pedicabs" and "tugtrucks". | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: In addition to the everything crapsack-y about the movie, the transportation system has completely broken down. In other words, everyone is trapped in the city; the only non-human-powered vehicles mentioned are old buses taken from a history museum, used by the police and running on extremely low grade fuel. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The story doesn't end happily for any of the principle characters. Billy and Sol are dead. Andy has been temporarily demoted to being a patrolman and Shirl has left him. On top of it all, the population is still increasing with no end in sight. | |
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Not His Sled | |
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Not His Sled: An unusual inversion, thanks to Adaptation Displacement. Unlike the movie, and it's infamous Twist Ending about the true nature of Soylent Green, there's no such twist here; Soylent Green doesn't exist, and the product it was based on, Soylent Soy, really is just made from soy and lentils. | |
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"Double, Double" Title | |
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"Double, Double" Title: The title is formed by duplicating "Make Room!" | |
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We Will Use WikiWords in the Future | |
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We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Soylent, which is a portmanteau of "soy" and "lentil". | |
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New Year Has Come | |
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New Year Has Come: The novel ends shortly after midnight on January 1, 2000. | |
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Soylent Soy: Played straight, unlike the film adaptation. | |
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Elder Abuse | |
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Elder Abuse: "Eldsters" are forcibly retired from work so younger people can have their position. | |
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Future Food Is Artificial | |
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Future Food Is Artificial: Soylent steaks made of soy and lentils are an expensive item. | |
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The End Is Nigh | |
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The End Is Nigh: A secondary character is Peter, a defrocked priest turned hermit who's eagerly awaiting the Turn of the Millennium, which he assumes will bring the end of the world. He's sorely despondent when it doesn't. | |
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Depraved Homosexual: Charlie, the head of the servants at Chelsea Park, in addition to running a black market for the tenants, also keeps the elevator boy in his bed overnight. | |
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Overpopulation Crisis | |
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Overpopulation Crisis: The central issue which is destroying society in the book. | |
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Failed Future Forecast | |
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Failed Future Forecast: The novel's "overpopulated" dystopia has a world population of around seven billion – a number surpassed in Real Life in the early 2010s. The final line of the novel describes the United States as having 344 million people, only 16 million more than the real-word total in 2019. Meanwhile, New York City has yet to pass the nine million mark even two decades past the novel's setting, never mind thirty five million. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Surprisingly yes, compared to the movie, if only mariginally, since things aren't quite as bad in the novel as they are there. At least not yet, since the movie is set about 20 years later. | |
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Used Future | |
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Used Future: We never get to see how the wealthy live, other than that they have access to "luxuries" like running water and fresh food, but everyone else is stuck using decades-old tech that's falling apart, if it works at all. Andy's apartment has an old TV and a refrigerator hooked up to a bicycle generator. | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece: A crowd riot gets so out of hand that the police have to use weapons from a museum to break up the fight. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: As previously mentioned, apparently Harrison couldn't imagine a world with 7 billion people (more than double the world population of 3.4 billion at time of writing) not having all the problems his book shows. | |
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Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap | |
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Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap: Even soy-based faux steak is expensive and worth practically rioting over. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The book was written in 1966 and set in 1999. | |
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Global Warming | |
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Global Warming: Barely a page goes by without someone complaining about the ever-present humidity... in New York at winter time. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Shirl, Big Mike's former mistress, who hooks up with Andy only to leave him for someone wealtier. | |
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