Author: Guy Lancaster
Guy Lancaster is editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History &, Culture (www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net), a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System. He holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from Arkansas State University and has published several academic articles on racial violence, as well as numerous book reviews, personal essays, and more.
A Tribute to Harry Harrison
Most obituaries written shortly after the August 15, 2012, death of best-selling science-fiction writer Harry Harrison remembered him as the author of Make Room! Make Room!, the novel upon which the Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green was loosely based. But Harrison’s significance to the genre of science fiction, and to secular humanism, transcends this distasteful …