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Bill, the Galactic Hero #4
On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his own neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own).
Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping for a real foot to replace the satyr's foot he's been lumbered with. Not that he has anything against satyrs - at least not until one grabs him by the foot and pulls him under the ocean into a world of unspeakable and endless pleasures!
Roaming this dimension of primordial desires, Bill faces dragons and gunslingers for the sake of true love - and a really good beer!
213 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 1991
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Harry Harrison
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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
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July 4, 2021
This one was a bit better than the previous book because -- I admit -- I really got into the Zelazny tech-gods bit and some of the western aspects spread throughout. It tickled my funny bone.
But there was something that, while tickling my 12-year-old inner self's other funny bone, didn't age quite so well. It was a super-testosterone freakfest-turned-alien. It WAS funny for my 12-year-old self tho. Sperm jokes abound.
It's totally lowest-common-denominator stuff -- but sometimes it really IS funny. And I'm certain that it would probably not go too well with the modern book sensibilities. Times change.
But there was something that, while tickling my 12-year-old inner self's other funny bone, didn't age quite so well. It was a super-testosterone freakfest-turned-alien. It WAS funny for my 12-year-old self tho. Sperm jokes abound.
It's totally lowest-common-denominator stuff -- but sometimes it really IS funny. And I'm certain that it would probably not go too well with the modern book sensibilities. Times change.
June 20, 2025
Bill is the perfect Starship Trooper. Very strong. Very fast. Not very bright. The receipt of a satyr's foot and a heavy binge drinking session lands Bill in a strange world where he must seek his heart's desire.
Funny, with lots of bad taste in-jokes about other writers.
Funny, with lots of bad taste in-jokes about other writers.
October 18, 2022
review of
Harry Harrison & David Bischoff's Bill, The Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - October 17, 2022
I was 'on vacation' & checking out a bkstore in a small town in Michigan when I ran across some of these "Bill, The Galactic Hero" bks. I'd previously read 3 other Harrison bks: The Technicolor Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; Tunnel Through The Deeps aka A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; & Planet of No Return: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . They were all 'light' & enjoyable, nothing fantastic enuf to make him a favorite writer. I'd also read 2 novels by Bishoff: The Crunch Bunch: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; & Nightworld: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . These were both Young Adult SciFi. I don't usually read YA bks & probably wdn't've read these if I'd realized they were YA 1st. No biggie. Anyway, I picked up this Galactic Hero bk b/c I thought it might be funny in a way similar to Ron Goulart. Besides, I wanted to support the bkstore. In my mood of the time, I almost bought all the Galactic Hero bks there. I'm glad I didn't.
It's not that I think this was terribly done.. it's more of a matter of 'it is what it is': in other words, the humor is played out in a way that's appropriate for the authors's purposes but, gee, I must've grown up too much (what?) to actually find such things funny any more. Here's a sample:
"When they sent him here to the Army Hospital on Colostomy IV they mentioned R and R. To any Trooper, R and R meant Rutting and Rotgut. Which of course implied the presence of a: human females, and b: large volumes of alcoholic beverages. Since the hospital had a nicely stocked bar down by its morgue, the latter was taken care of nicely. Unfortunately, though, all the nurses in this medical madhouse were steel robots. When he had groped back to life after his first heroic boozeup he had found himself groping one of them, which was a most unsatisfying, as well as rusty, occasion.
"So now, here in the examination room, Bill was scratching his thinning hair with one of his two right hands, and staring down at his foot. It looked pretty repulsive." - p 2
The bk's full of references to other SF literature:
"He examined the titles. E-I-E-I-O! by Greg Bore. PLANET OF THE ALIEN TRANSVESTITE PANTY RAIDERS Vol. VI. THE WELL OF GENITALS by Jerk el Upchucker. NIGHT OF THE LIVING CHINGERS by Stephen Thing. Boy! Classics!" - p 15
Greg Bore being a take-off of Greg Bear, an author whose work I like more than that of Harrison's & Bischoff's; Stephen Thing being a take-off of Stephen King. But, then, you probably got that. Maybe I'm writing for a future when no-one's heard of Stephen King. There's plenty of language play of this take-off type.
"My full name is Irma Feritayl, and I'm from a planet called Fey in the Softscience system in the Half-Baked Sector of the Galaxy." - p 30
Given that I'm a 'Saint' in the Church of the SubGenius this next bit caught my attn:
"He remembered her gentle whippings with the robo-mule prod when she caught him reading WANKY TRI-D COMICS on the Sabbath instead of studying the Neo-Koranic Texts According to the SubGenius Bowb of the Zoroastrian Nabobs for his religious upbringing." - p 35
It's a little strange reading something that you know is intended to be funny & not really laughing at all. I remember having a similar reaction to watching "Bio-Dome" starring comedian Pauly Shore.
Then there's a take-off of Raymond Chandler:
""My name is Frigga Athena," she sang, her mammoth gazongas hammocked in a steel bra that shone like a healthy Double Sun system. "Are you Philip Chandler, Private Third Eye from the Secret World of Camelot?"
""That's right, sweetheart," I snarled in my best Humphrey Bogart lisp. "Exiled here on Earth by Merlin himself after I trumped out in a Dimensional Bridge game."" - p 49
"["]the destination of my Christian quest!"
""And what is that?" asked Bill suspiciously. Christians had a generally bad reputation on Phigerinadon II, ever since that Holy Roller show had held a revival in the Phalanges Continent amongst the Donner Settlement. The Hyper-Donners, being cannibals, had of course eaten these missionaries—and had suffered terrible bouts of indigestion for years afterwards. Hence the bad reputation.
""Why, for the second most fabulous quest of them all!' said Rick in a highly oratorical manner. "The Quest for the Holy Bar and Grill!"" - p 55
"Rick the Supernal Hero had to resort to a variation of the Bloater Drive he'd bought in a used starship lot, called a Bilious Drive. Bill had always hated the Bloater Drive when Empire Trooper ships had used it to hop between star systems and if anything the Bilious Drive was exceedingly worse, since it involved pumping the entire space ship full of a singularly repulsive mixture of xenon and hydrogen and sulfurous gases which made everything—if the Bible is to be believed—literally stink like hell. When the right mixture of gases had been reached, their molecules were vibrated electronically until the gas, the ship and all of its contents were shaking like crazy and synchronized with the atomic pulse beat of their destination. The instant this occurred everything would be belched across the cosmic distances in a most uncomfortable and sickening manner. Bill even thought good things about the Bloater Drive when this happened.
"But when the starship named DESIRE finally drifted into the Ad Hoc System, he saw the gigantic neon signs flashing out the letters "Holy Bar and Grill," "On the Sands Stage: Mr. Wayne Newton!" and "Nude Drinking" and "Topless-Bottomless Bar" which he hoped meant more nudity and not prefrontal lobotomy and gluteotomy. A tear in his eye, a frog in his throat—and incipient liver failure on the horizon—Bill knew that his heart had finally found a home." - pp 69-70
That's all really somewhat inspired but it still doesn't do it for me. Will I read something by Goulart & not find THAT funny anymore either?! Maybe it's time to turn me into jello.
"In a thoroughly foul mood, more sexually frustrated than he'd ever felt in his entire life, Bill opened gummy lids and reached up to scratch the top of his head. He felt the fumbling resistance of wires. He heard a popping, a squealing—machine sounds rumbled all around him like amplified soap bubbles. Squeaks and blips and hollow "pings" echoed mechanically and plastically." - p 79
I remember when I was a research volunteer in a sleep study where they tried to get an EEG of my brain's sleeping patterns so they wired something like 6 to 8 contacts to my head & had the wires from them running into a drawer nearby. There wasn't really enuf length to the wires to allow me to move my head very much, let alone the rest of my body - maybe they were afraid I'd strangle. Whatever the case, it was one of the most uncomfortable sleeps I'd ever had & the data cdn't've been of much use. Fortunately, there were a couple of fluffers taking shifts so I wasn't sexually frustrated like Bill was.
In the long run, any bk that references Lewis Carroll can't be all bad.
"He turned to Ottar in his satyr guise, "Remember Ottar. You find the Fountain of Hormones, and you'll also find your precious, darling Slithy Tove!"" - p 90
"I shall plunge forward on the tides of my beautiful facile prose and segue most expertly (like a ballerina pirouetting to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake? Like Joseph Conrad, or Philip Roth or, better yet, those fabulous writers of yore, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore!)" - p 121
&, yes, I've read that latter team: C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner's Earth's Last Citadel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . It seems that one or both of the authors here might dislike Greg Bear's somewhat humorless hard SF & find much more pleasant company in Moore & Kuttner. Why there's even a reference to the Firesign Theater! How many of you younguns remember them?
"DR. KRANKENHAUS'S STORY
Or
"Don't Crush that Pixie, Hand Me the Tweezers"" - p 134
& what self-disrespecting SciFi story cd resist poking a stick into Heinlein's termite hole?
"THE PALM IS A HAIRY MISTRESS
(being the eleventh volume in
The Putz Thru
Tomorrow series)
By
Robert A. Heiny" - p 179
All in all, there must be plenty of readers out there who enjoy this - after all, there're multiple bks in the series published by the mainstream publisher Avon. I just don't happen to be one of them. No biggie.
Harry Harrison & David Bischoff's Bill, The Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - October 17, 2022
I was 'on vacation' & checking out a bkstore in a small town in Michigan when I ran across some of these "Bill, The Galactic Hero" bks. I'd previously read 3 other Harrison bks: The Technicolor Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; Tunnel Through The Deeps aka A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; & Planet of No Return: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . They were all 'light' & enjoyable, nothing fantastic enuf to make him a favorite writer. I'd also read 2 novels by Bishoff: The Crunch Bunch: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ; & Nightworld: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . These were both Young Adult SciFi. I don't usually read YA bks & probably wdn't've read these if I'd realized they were YA 1st. No biggie. Anyway, I picked up this Galactic Hero bk b/c I thought it might be funny in a way similar to Ron Goulart. Besides, I wanted to support the bkstore. In my mood of the time, I almost bought all the Galactic Hero bks there. I'm glad I didn't.
It's not that I think this was terribly done.. it's more of a matter of 'it is what it is': in other words, the humor is played out in a way that's appropriate for the authors's purposes but, gee, I must've grown up too much (what?) to actually find such things funny any more. Here's a sample:
"When they sent him here to the Army Hospital on Colostomy IV they mentioned R and R. To any Trooper, R and R meant Rutting and Rotgut. Which of course implied the presence of a: human females, and b: large volumes of alcoholic beverages. Since the hospital had a nicely stocked bar down by its morgue, the latter was taken care of nicely. Unfortunately, though, all the nurses in this medical madhouse were steel robots. When he had groped back to life after his first heroic boozeup he had found himself groping one of them, which was a most unsatisfying, as well as rusty, occasion.
"So now, here in the examination room, Bill was scratching his thinning hair with one of his two right hands, and staring down at his foot. It looked pretty repulsive." - p 2
The bk's full of references to other SF literature:
"He examined the titles. E-I-E-I-O! by Greg Bore. PLANET OF THE ALIEN TRANSVESTITE PANTY RAIDERS Vol. VI. THE WELL OF GENITALS by Jerk el Upchucker. NIGHT OF THE LIVING CHINGERS by Stephen Thing. Boy! Classics!" - p 15
Greg Bore being a take-off of Greg Bear, an author whose work I like more than that of Harrison's & Bischoff's; Stephen Thing being a take-off of Stephen King. But, then, you probably got that. Maybe I'm writing for a future when no-one's heard of Stephen King. There's plenty of language play of this take-off type.
"My full name is Irma Feritayl, and I'm from a planet called Fey in the Softscience system in the Half-Baked Sector of the Galaxy." - p 30
Given that I'm a 'Saint' in the Church of the SubGenius this next bit caught my attn:
"He remembered her gentle whippings with the robo-mule prod when she caught him reading WANKY TRI-D COMICS on the Sabbath instead of studying the Neo-Koranic Texts According to the SubGenius Bowb of the Zoroastrian Nabobs for his religious upbringing." - p 35
It's a little strange reading something that you know is intended to be funny & not really laughing at all. I remember having a similar reaction to watching "Bio-Dome" starring comedian Pauly Shore.
Then there's a take-off of Raymond Chandler:
""My name is Frigga Athena," she sang, her mammoth gazongas hammocked in a steel bra that shone like a healthy Double Sun system. "Are you Philip Chandler, Private Third Eye from the Secret World of Camelot?"
""That's right, sweetheart," I snarled in my best Humphrey Bogart lisp. "Exiled here on Earth by Merlin himself after I trumped out in a Dimensional Bridge game."" - p 49
"["]the destination of my Christian quest!"
""And what is that?" asked Bill suspiciously. Christians had a generally bad reputation on Phigerinadon II, ever since that Holy Roller show had held a revival in the Phalanges Continent amongst the Donner Settlement. The Hyper-Donners, being cannibals, had of course eaten these missionaries—and had suffered terrible bouts of indigestion for years afterwards. Hence the bad reputation.
""Why, for the second most fabulous quest of them all!' said Rick in a highly oratorical manner. "The Quest for the Holy Bar and Grill!"" - p 55
"Rick the Supernal Hero had to resort to a variation of the Bloater Drive he'd bought in a used starship lot, called a Bilious Drive. Bill had always hated the Bloater Drive when Empire Trooper ships had used it to hop between star systems and if anything the Bilious Drive was exceedingly worse, since it involved pumping the entire space ship full of a singularly repulsive mixture of xenon and hydrogen and sulfurous gases which made everything—if the Bible is to be believed—literally stink like hell. When the right mixture of gases had been reached, their molecules were vibrated electronically until the gas, the ship and all of its contents were shaking like crazy and synchronized with the atomic pulse beat of their destination. The instant this occurred everything would be belched across the cosmic distances in a most uncomfortable and sickening manner. Bill even thought good things about the Bloater Drive when this happened.
"But when the starship named DESIRE finally drifted into the Ad Hoc System, he saw the gigantic neon signs flashing out the letters "Holy Bar and Grill," "On the Sands Stage: Mr. Wayne Newton!" and "Nude Drinking" and "Topless-Bottomless Bar" which he hoped meant more nudity and not prefrontal lobotomy and gluteotomy. A tear in his eye, a frog in his throat—and incipient liver failure on the horizon—Bill knew that his heart had finally found a home." - pp 69-70
That's all really somewhat inspired but it still doesn't do it for me. Will I read something by Goulart & not find THAT funny anymore either?! Maybe it's time to turn me into jello.
"In a thoroughly foul mood, more sexually frustrated than he'd ever felt in his entire life, Bill opened gummy lids and reached up to scratch the top of his head. He felt the fumbling resistance of wires. He heard a popping, a squealing—machine sounds rumbled all around him like amplified soap bubbles. Squeaks and blips and hollow "pings" echoed mechanically and plastically." - p 79
I remember when I was a research volunteer in a sleep study where they tried to get an EEG of my brain's sleeping patterns so they wired something like 6 to 8 contacts to my head & had the wires from them running into a drawer nearby. There wasn't really enuf length to the wires to allow me to move my head very much, let alone the rest of my body - maybe they were afraid I'd strangle. Whatever the case, it was one of the most uncomfortable sleeps I'd ever had & the data cdn't've been of much use. Fortunately, there were a couple of fluffers taking shifts so I wasn't sexually frustrated like Bill was.
In the long run, any bk that references Lewis Carroll can't be all bad.
"He turned to Ottar in his satyr guise, "Remember Ottar. You find the Fountain of Hormones, and you'll also find your precious, darling Slithy Tove!"" - p 90
"I shall plunge forward on the tides of my beautiful facile prose and segue most expertly (like a ballerina pirouetting to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake? Like Joseph Conrad, or Philip Roth or, better yet, those fabulous writers of yore, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore!)" - p 121
&, yes, I've read that latter team: C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner's Earth's Last Citadel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . It seems that one or both of the authors here might dislike Greg Bear's somewhat humorless hard SF & find much more pleasant company in Moore & Kuttner. Why there's even a reference to the Firesign Theater! How many of you younguns remember them?
"DR. KRANKENHAUS'S STORY
Or
"Don't Crush that Pixie, Hand Me the Tweezers"" - p 134
& what self-disrespecting SciFi story cd resist poking a stick into Heinlein's termite hole?
"THE PALM IS A HAIRY MISTRESS
(being the eleventh volume in
The Putz Thru
Tomorrow series)
By
Robert A. Heiny" - p 179
All in all, there must be plenty of readers out there who enjoy this - after all, there're multiple bks in the series published by the mainstream publisher Avon. I just don't happen to be one of them. No biggie.
October 2, 2024
Harry Harrisonin ja David Bischoffin yhdessä kirjoittama tieteissatiiri Bill, Linnunradan sankari mauttoman mielihyvän planeetalla, 1997 (Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure, 1991) on seitsemään romaaniin venyneen "Bill, Linnunradan sankari" -sarjan neljäs osa. Kyseessä on kaikessa uljaudessaan oikea roskakirjallisuuden prototyyppi. Huumori on paikoin niin ala-arvoisen huonoa, että naurattaa jo sellaisenaan. Juoni on pöhköäkin pöhkömpi. Alkoholisoituneella, aivopestyllä avaruusotilas Billillä on kaksi oikeaa kättä ja toisen jalan tilalla oman tahdon omaava vuohen sorkka. Bill tykkää sotia, ryypätä ja naida, mutta kaksi viimeistä harrastusta on selkeästi etusijalla. Bill temmataan mukaan seikkailuun, jossa liikutaan ulottuvuuksilta toisille; naisten ja viinin kyllästämästä auvoisesta paratiisista aina villin lännen väkivaltaiseen kaupunkiin. Tarinan taustalla väijyy maailman suurimman voiman, kollektiivisen energian eli miehisen suvunjatkamistarpeen, haltuunotto ja sitä kautta koko universumin hallitseminen. Pahat ilkimykset pyrkivät löytämään energian lähteen, Suuren Ylirauhasen, ja Bill yrittää kammeta pahikset pyrkimyksissään sekä samalla löytää aiemmin paratiisissa kohtaamansa rakkauden kohteensa, Irman.
Tällainen puhdasoppinen, kaunistelematon pulp-roskakirjallisuus on oma taiteenlajinsa ja kulttuurimuotonsa, eikä siihen pysty kuka tahansa kynänpyörittelijä. Nostan hattua, varovasti. Pohdin ensimmäisten 20-30 sivun aikana, että löytyikö vihdoin kirjavuoteni ensimmäinen yhden tähden kirja, mutta oudosti aloin sivujen kääntelyn myötä hieman nauttia lukemastani ja täysin päättömästä kerronnasta. Teos on niin huono, että se alkaa omalla kaistapäisellä tavallaan olla jo hyvä.
Arvioni: 2,1 tähteä viidestä.
Tällainen puhdasoppinen, kaunistelematon pulp-roskakirjallisuus on oma taiteenlajinsa ja kulttuurimuotonsa, eikä siihen pysty kuka tahansa kynänpyörittelijä. Nostan hattua, varovasti. Pohdin ensimmäisten 20-30 sivun aikana, että löytyikö vihdoin kirjavuoteni ensimmäinen yhden tähden kirja, mutta oudosti aloin sivujen kääntelyn myötä hieman nauttia lukemastani ja täysin päättömästä kerronnasta. Teos on niin huono, että se alkaa omalla kaistapäisellä tavallaan olla jo hyvä.
Arvioni: 2,1 tähteä viidestä.
January 18, 2024
2.5
Aunque Bill me sigue pareciendo un personaje divertido yo creo que el plot de esta cuarta entrega no le ayuda mucho. Esta es la típica historia que me debería haber dado risa si la hubiera leído cuando estaba en secundaria, pero aquí solo me ponía a pensar en lo mal que ha envejecido la historia y en lo machista que era la scifi de hace algunas décadas. Sin duda la más floja de las novelas de esta serie ya que la historia estaba por sin ningún rumbo, cambiando de escenarios sin mucha coherencia a cada dos o tres capítulos y los personajes me daban nulo interes (como el espermatozoide vaquero gigante por ejemplo). Seguiré leyendo las otras novelas que me faltan de este carismático personaje que en las anteriores entregas me divertí de lo lindo pero espero que este haya sido "el tocar fondo" de la historia y después de aquí venga algo mejor.
Aunque Bill me sigue pareciendo un personaje divertido yo creo que el plot de esta cuarta entrega no le ayuda mucho. Esta es la típica historia que me debería haber dado risa si la hubiera leído cuando estaba en secundaria, pero aquí solo me ponía a pensar en lo mal que ha envejecido la historia y en lo machista que era la scifi de hace algunas décadas. Sin duda la más floja de las novelas de esta serie ya que la historia estaba por sin ningún rumbo, cambiando de escenarios sin mucha coherencia a cada dos o tres capítulos y los personajes me daban nulo interes (como el espermatozoide vaquero gigante por ejemplo). Seguiré leyendo las otras novelas que me faltan de este carismático personaje que en las anteriores entregas me divertí de lo lindo pero espero que este haya sido "el tocar fondo" de la historia y después de aquí venga algo mejor.
February 28, 2019
7/10. Media de los 17 libros que he leído del autor : 7/10.
Ciencia ficción de humor exagerado donde Bill es una parodia de todos los heroes super-cachas que hayan podido existir.
Exagerado, esperpéntico, semiabsurdo, un humor bestia con el que no dejas de sonreir si te lo tomas tan a broma como lo ha hecho su autor al escribirlo.
Hay una serie de, creo, 7 libros pero son independientes, se pueden leer por separado. El comentario vale para todos ellos.
Yo empezaría a leerlo y si no te gusta este humor, pues lo dejas y en paz.
Ciencia ficción de humor exagerado donde Bill es una parodia de todos los heroes super-cachas que hayan podido existir.
Exagerado, esperpéntico, semiabsurdo, un humor bestia con el que no dejas de sonreir si te lo tomas tan a broma como lo ha hecho su autor al escribirlo.
Hay una serie de, creo, 7 libros pero son independientes, se pueden leer por separado. El comentario vale para todos ellos.
Yo empezaría a leerlo y si no te gusta este humor, pues lo dejas y en paz.
January 3, 2020
Took me over a week to read this steamy pile. Took time out of the story to have the hero read chapters of other books, never the same one, that were barely legible. It was clearly meant to be funny, you can see where you are expected to laugh, you just dont. It's like when a drunk 4 year old tried to tell you a joke, but you dont feel compelled to laugh out of politeness.
May 13, 2017
Despite many satirical referrals to other SciFi authors (which also require an extensive personal history of fandom) the jokes weren't very good. The story was passable, but wouldn't have encouraged reading the series if it was the first book.
October 26, 2022
Velskrevet, underholdende og det myldrer med henvisninger og spoofs. Men dybt er det bestemt ikke.
September 14, 2024
See previous reviews.
October 23, 2025
Jesus Christ, this one is terrible. A major disappointment after the first 3 of the series. I blame the co-author, whoever the fuck he is.
June 6, 2014
I don't know what drugs the authors were taking when they wrote this book, to produce this weird crap. Gave up after a few chapters as it got further from reality. I was expecting to find it funny, but was only amused once.
June 25, 2008
More hilarious Harry Harrison sci fi adventures. The reluctant soldier with two left arms.
April 24, 2014
I have to admit that I nearly gave up on this one. incoherent, unfunny and poor.
March 6, 2008
This is probably the weakest of the Bill the Galactic Hero series.
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