Make Room! Make Room!

Make Room! Make Room! is an excellent social commentary akin to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Wells's Time Machine. Harrison builds a New York city with a population 6 times what it was during the last "Dust Bowl" of the Great Depression and sees how things would work (or not work) with massive over population, dwindling water supplies, lack of fuel, global warming (though Harrison doesn't call it that), and a shortage of food. These crises form the back drop for a cop who is trying to solve a high profile murder at the close of 1999. While Harrison's model is exaggerated, all of the problems he describes do exist and we are starting to see the effects: rising oil prices, melting ice caps, huge fires in the bread basket, expensive health care and rising housing costs.

Well written, interesting story, makes you think!

** spoiler alert ** La verdad que me esperaba más coincidencias con la película basada en este libro pero luego de leer un poco más en Internet me enteré que cambiaron bastante el argumento para insertar el canibalismo a la trama. De todas maneras me gustó mucho cómo trataron la problemática del control de natalidad.