New York City - Population: 35 Million - Andy Rusch is lucky. He shares a room with only one other person one of the privileges of being a cop in New York in the twenty first century. His roommate, Sol, is old enough to tell stories about real coffee. His girl friend Shirl used to live with a local labor boss and has eaten steak beef, not dog. Every morning when Andy steps over the bodies of the families who sleep in the street outside his doorway, he wonders why he doesn''t feel any better about his life... MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! The novel that became the hit movie SOYLENT GREEN.