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En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill's spaceship is involved in a supreme contest and by accident Bill is the man who saves the sihp and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade, the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered capital planet, Helior. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and nastily surprising ways...]]> 1965 4 2 false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 11:02:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:51:32 -0800 2009
Good because the humor cheered me up; bad because much of the humor was lost on me.

But even with my bias, Bill the Galactic Hero is a fine piece of political sci-fi. Harry...more...]]> 38510706 1713956 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.53 311 1965 4 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Mon Nov 24 00:40:17 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 01 07:48:04 -0800 2009 3 Starship Troopers and slaps a cream pie in its face. Then he kicks it in the balls and stands back to admire the effect, before setting to work on Isaac Asimov's Foundation. They both had it coming :)

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Assigned to the spaceship Christine Keeler in the war against the lizard-like Chingers, Bill wasn't much of a soldier, but an act of accidental heroism won him the Purple Dart and a trip to Helior, the aluminum covered central planet of the Empire. And then Bill's adventure really started.

From his loss of a Helior floor plan (a major criminal offense) and his search for sanctuary in the department of garbage management in Helior's underground, to his exile and final redemption, Bill's tale is a perfect change of pace for anyone who likes the best in modern science fiction.]]> 1965 3 0 false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 12:01:02 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 13:06:15 -0700 2008 Stainless Steel Rat Series years ago and I recall reading one of the Bill, The Galactic Hero books but I’m not sure if it was this one. I really dug the Stainless Steel Rat books and was on the lookout for them but found this little gem at Walden Pond Books.

Harriso...more...]]> 48794499 84112 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 3 0 false Tue Mar 10 07:44:45 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:48:18 -0700 2009 40376550 1811723 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Dec 18 08:03:06 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 08:03:38 -0800 2008 25326302 1264081 1224049 0380003953 9780380003952 1 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229689721m/1224049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229689721s/1224049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1224049.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.38 13 It was the highest honor 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 honor-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.

]]> 1965 3 0 false Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 24 11:52:14 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 08:08:00 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 9821581 651630 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 4 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1986 Sat Dec 01 18:23:10 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 18:32:49 -0800 2007 more...]]> 16817856 667234 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sun Mar 02 02:19:53 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 02:23:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 13973263 829438 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 4 0 false Tue Jan 29 15:07:45 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 15:08:46 -0800 2008
Really, some good stuff, fun, with some serious philosophizing thrown in the mix in a non-pretentious way.]]> 1993395 123748 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 5 0 false Fri Jun 15 05:43:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:38:01 -0800 2009 16708318 859178 64430 0743487079 9780743487078 16 <![CDATA[Bill, the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007m/64430.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170623007s/64430.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 3.51 346 1965 3 0 false Fri Feb 29 12:02:54 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 12:03:44 -0800 2008 11304198 726844 403222 0743423763 9780743423762 1 <![CDATA[Bill. the Galactic Hero]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174451952m/403222.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174451952s/403222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403222.Bill_the_Galactic_Hero 2.90 10 It was the highest honor 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 honor-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...

From the sweltering fuse room aboard the Keeler, where he loses an arm while blasting a Chinger spaceship, to the Department of Sanitation far below the world-city of Helior, where he finds peace, job security, and unlimited trash...here is Bill, a pure-hearted fool fighting a deluxe cast of robots, androids, and aliens in a never-ending losing battle to preserve his humanity while upholding the glory of the Empire.

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