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The hysterical military SF satire from the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat - one of the funniest science fiction books ever written.
FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description
It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honour - he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse...
Author Biography
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925. He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto, the most popular of the constructed international languages, which appears in many of his novels. He published novels for over half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of overpopulation, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM!, which was adapted into the cult film SOYLENT GREEN. He died in 2012.
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Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written
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It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honour - he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse...
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Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written
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The hysterical military SF satire from the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat - one of the funniest science fiction books ever written.
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BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO made science fiction funny decades before anyone had heard of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
Details ISBN147320531X Author Harry Harrison Year 2015 ISBN-10 147320531X ISBN-13 9781473205314 Media Book Publication Date 2015-05-14 Pages 160 Publisher Orion Publishing Co Imprint Gollancz Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1925 Format Paperback Language English UK Release Date 2015-05-14 Audience General NZ Release Date 2015-07-13 AU Release Date 2015-07-13 We've got this
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