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General Peter Champion Commander of British Invasion Forces

Major General Bullers Infantry Commander

Colonel Oliver Phipps-Hornby Commander 62nd Foot

Lieutenant Saxby Athelstane Cavalry officer

General Harcourt Garrison Commander of Quebec

BRITISH NAVY

Admiral Alexander Milne

Captain Nicholas Roland Commander of HMS Warrior

Commander Sydney Tredegar Royal Marines

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

Jefferson Davis President

Judah P. Benjamin Secretary of State

Thomas Bragg Attorney General

James A. Seddon Secretary of War

Christopher G. Memminger Secretary of the Treasury

Stephen Mallory Secretary of the Navy

John H. Reagan Attorney General and Postmaster General

Stephen Murray Secretary of the Navy

John Slidell Confederate Commissioner to France

William Murray Mason Confederate Commissioner to England

CONFEDERATE ARMY

General Robert E. Lee Commander-in-Chief

General P.G.T. Beauregard

General Albert Sidney Johnston

CONFEDERATE NAVY

Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan Captain CSS Virginia

AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRY HARRISON

Harry Harrison’s career as a science fiction writer has virtually spanned the history of the genre. Born is Stamford, Connecticut, in 1925, he grew up reading Astounding Science Fiction in the Borough of Queens in New York City. Following WWII, in which he served as gunnery instructor in Laredo, Texas, volunteering every month for overseas service, Harrison attended a number of art schools, then worked for some years as a commercial artist and art director. From this he moved on to publishing and editing, sold articles and stories, and started his first novel. Finding New York City an impossible place in which to write, he and his wife, Joan, and unprotesting year-old son, Todd, moved to Mexico in 1956. From there to England in 1957. To Italy in 1958. After a quick visit to New York in 1959, where daughter Moira was born, the family moved to Denmark in 1959. The peripatetic Mr. Harrison, at present, resides in Ireland. He is the author of more than forty novels, among them The Stainless Steel Rat books, the acclaimed West of Eden trilogy, Make Room! Make Room! (made into the movie Soylent Green), and, most recently, Stars Stripes Forever, the first in a new alternate history series. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages, including that perennial favorite, Esperanto. He received the Nebula Award in 1973.

We spoke with him recently about his distinguished career, his memories of the past and thoughts of the future, his long love affair with alternate history, and cannibalism.

Q: What was it like to be an SF writer in the ’40s and ’50s? The Hydra Club, John W. Campbell, Jr., and Astounding — was there a sense among the people involved that you were creating something special and important, making up the golden age as you went along?