Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
by Harry Harrison, David Bischoff
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The army made Bill the galactic hero what he is today - the perfect Starship Trouper, and proud possessor of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion. Now he's been volunteered to join a suicide-squad run by Captain Cadaver to the well-known hell-hole planet of Eyerack.Tags
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I read the first couple of Bill the Galactic Hero books many years ago, probably before this one was out, because I thought that Bottled Brains was the last in the series. I was pleasantly surprised to find more in the series, but it didn't really live up to my memory of the earlier books. Granted, I could be remembering things wrong, but Harrison is not the author, or at least is just the co-author of this book. Which means he probably outlined the story and had this David Bischoff flesh it out.
It was okay for the first three quarters of the book, but got really stupidly weird the closer it got to the end. Plus it has much cruder humor at the end, which is really unlike the rest of the series as I remember it.
I was going to give it 2.5 show more stars, but took a half off because of the stupid unnecessary cliffhanger ending. show less
It was okay for the first three quarters of the book, but got really stupidly weird the closer it got to the end. Plus it has much cruder humor at the end, which is really unlike the rest of the series as I remember it.
I was going to give it 2.5 show more stars, but took a half off because of the stupid unnecessary cliffhanger ending. show less
Drivel - not up to the standard of the original Bill the Galactic Hero. Worst of the sequels.
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Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey on March 12, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut. He was drafted into the U. S. Air Corps in 1943 and became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-guided bomb-sights and gun turrets. After being discharged, he graduated from Hunter College show more with a degree in art. By the end of the 1940s, he was running a small studio that specialized in selling illustrations to comics and science-fiction magazines. He then moved on to editing some of the magazines. As the market for comics began to shrink, he started writing for science-fiction magazines. He wrote short science fiction stories and novels including Deathworld, Captive Universe, Montezuma's Revenge, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, Stonehenge, West of Eden, Stars and Stripes Forever. He also wrote the Stainless Steel Rat series and the Bill, the Galactic Hero series. His novel Make Room! Make Room! Was the inspiration for the movie Soylent Green. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hank Dempsey, Felix Boyd, Wade Kaempfert, Cameron Hall, Philip St. John, and Leslie Charteris. He died on August 15, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
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- Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
- Original publication date
- 1991
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- Harris, David M.
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