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	Bill, the Galactic Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satirical science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1965.
		Bill is taken to the Imperial planet Helior (a satire on Trantor) to receive his medal.
		Bill becomes a recruiting sergeant and is assigned to Phigerinadon II where he recruits his own younger brother for the one-month off his own service time it will give him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill,_the_Galactic_Hero (785 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Bill The Galactic Hero
		Bill is a big, dumb farm boy, minding his business on a distant world when he is shanghaied by a passing recruiting officer and his band of gleaming robots.
		But Bill is a regular Candide, and no matter how deep the doo-doo into which he falls, he somehow manages to come out smelling, if not exactly like a rose, than at least not quite bad as the doo-doo itself.
		Bill The Galactic Hero is a good light read, interesting for those who want to see how the funny stuff was handled before Douglas Adams got hold of it.
	www.sfsite.com /01b/bgh96.htm (931 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		The freshly zombified Bill marches toward his unpleasant and difficult future even as his sweet, gray-haired old mother begs the recruiters to give her back her son.
		Bill soon finds out that the Chingers are not the hulking monsters of the propaganda, but diminutive little lizards small enough to live inside humanoid robots they use as spies.
		Bill, the Galactic Hero is an angry book, published in the early days of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and in large part intended as a direct rebuttal to the gung-go drumbeats of prior military-SF classics like Heinlein's
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue356/classic.html (814 words)

	ISL Fight #64
		Bill the Galactic Hero strikes the bear with his sword, but that fur proves its worth again.
		Bill the Galactic Hero blinks in unbelief as the bear excecutes a brilliant parry and is now attacking.
		Bill the Galactic Hero parries a weak attack by the bear.
	www.angelfire.com /ny2/captainivarez/fight64.html (619 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Bill, the Galactic Hero : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because of his "heroism," Bill is awarded the coveted Purple Dart medal, and a trip to the Imperial homeworld, Helior, whose surface is completely covered by a city.
		Bill is the proverbial everyman who wises up to situation—because it's either that or be ground underfoot by bureaucracy, or turned into cannon fodder.
		Bill, the Galactic Hero does share many of the same themes as Joe Haldeman's Hugo-winning The Forever War, but by the time Haldeman the Vietnam vet (and winner of the Purple Heart) wrote his work, all the humor was gone.
	www.revolutionsf.com /print.php3?id=1120 (1784 words)

	Sproutlore - Sproutlore Reviews
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Robot Slaves
		This is the first book in a series of sequels to Harrison’s bitingly satirical Bill, the Galactic Hero.
		All of this becomes apparent to Bill in the closing chapters of the first volume, but he’s a good soldier so he simply shrugs and keeps firing.
	www.sproutlore.com /reviews/reviews.php?review=70 (292 words)

	Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Bill would give his right arm to defend his Emperor against the alien Chingers - which is lucky seeing as he has two of them...
		And Bill knows all about heroism - as part of a motley crew his new task is to track down the source of Chinger-controlled metal dragons that are making mincemeat out of humans...
		the perfect hero: ready to go anywhere, do anything to save his own neck, which is probably the only part of his body that is still his own...
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=8&p1=1184 (709 words)

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		Alias Bill Arp Charles Henry Smith and the Souths Goodly Heritage.
	www.bookauthor.de /bookuuubill.html (1545 words)

	Amazon.com: Bill the Galactic Hero: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bill's world is brutal, but it moves so fast that you might have difficulty caring about who is who.
		The number of sequels that came afterwards surprised me. Bill the Galactic Hero was written with a point in mind: that the military is a horrible place.
		In it, we meet Bill (no last name is ever provided), a simple farm lad on Phigerinadon II, who is shanghaied into the galactic emperor's army to fight in the war against the lizardlike Chingers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743423763?v=glance (2573 words)

	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1991) [novel]
		The third in a series of novels continuing the adventures of Bill, the Galactic Hero.
		Bill now has a satyr's foot, and is in a military hospital seeking a replacement.
	www.iblist.com /book6165.htm (119 words)

	Worlds in the Making - Science Fiction - Bill the Galactic Hero
		In 1965, Harry Harrison wrote a science fiction novel entitled "Bill the Galactic Hero".
		I read the novel about 15 years ago and the image of a musclebound hero fighting off an alien terror has stuck in my mind.
		Bill's face was a customised texture based on my Braedan character from the "Annals of Malena".
	hamfast.bryce-alive.net /bill.html (148 words)

	Galaxy Bookshop - Bill the Galactic Hero (Bill #01)
		Galaxy Bookshop - Bill the Galactic Hero (Bill #01)
		Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps.
		En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill's spaceship is involved in a supreme conflict and -- by accident -- Bill is the man who saves the ship and wins the day.
	www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=117365 (174 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bill the Galactic Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The simple plot follows a farm laborer named Bill as he is tricked into joining the army in a future inter-galactic war.
		BTGH is the story of a backwoods farmboy who is shanghaied into military service because he looks just the type - big and strong, but dumber than a plant.
		During his training period, however, we find that our hero is quicker to notice things that we expected, and learns valuable lessons that are easily applicable to life, especially if you have a job you hate.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743423763 (792 words)

	SciFan: Books: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Zombie Vampires by Harry Harrison (from our database of ...
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Zombie Vampires, by Harry Harrison, Jack C. Haldeman II
		BILL - a perfect recruit for the good ship Bounty, bound for the Chinger war and carrying a cargo of as nice a company of homicidal misfits and maniacs as you could wish to meet outside of a penitentiary asylum (which is where they've just come from).
		BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO - he's back, he's bad and about to meet the most hideous alien lifeform of his entire career.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=3787 (286 words)

	UKFDB - Recently Added
		Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains
	www.ukfdb.co.uk /misc/recent_added.php (47 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bill, the galactic hero, is sent on a suicide mission to a planet from which no one has ever returned.
		Crash landing on Tsuris, Bill soon meets up with the Tsurians: a race of disembodied intelligences, some housed in robot bodies or the appropriated bodies of other life forms, but most lying dormant in bottles awaiting re-birth.
		What happened to his original body?) and continuity is poor (Chingers are described as being Earth's deadliest enemies; Bill claims that he always thought Captain Dirk was a famous hero but he had never heard of him before Chapter 4).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575050047 (597 words)

	BILL THE GALACTIC HERO by Harry Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Others do the exact opposite and this is one of the most famous, originally published in 1965 and now reprinted for a whole new generation of readers by Ibooks with a new introduction by the author, telling that its genesis has its roots in his own army experience.
		Set in the 89th century on a far away planet young Bill wants nothing more out of life than to work on the family farm and become a Technical Fertilizer Operator but the army has other ideas when it sees his fine fit form and expression of bucolic vacancy.
		Wonderfully satirical and full of unexpected twists and turns this is a hilarious look at army life, war and a planet totally lacking in a Green outlook.
	www.myshelf.com /scifi_fantasy/01/billgalactichero.htm (264 words)

	Allscifi.com Book Review
		This is a parody of futuristic military regimes.
		Bill, an ordinary farmer, is drafted into the army and conditioned to be a fighting grunt.
		Everyone is out to get everyone else, and when Bill accidently breaks an obscure rule he gets in trouble too, and goes on the run.
	www.allscifi.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=91 (71 words)

	Harry Harrison - Summary Bibliography (Long Works) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990) with Robert Sheckley
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Zombie Vampires (1991) with Jack C. Haldeman II
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars [vt Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell (1992)](1991) with David Bischoff
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Harry_Harrison (550 words)

	Bill the Galactic Hero
		Bill, our titular hero, is a bumbling mountain of good-natured peasant muscle whose brain-power is in direct inverse proportion to his neck size.
		Galactic Hero is when he accidentally blows up a Chinger warship that is about ready to vaporize the spaceship he is stationed on.
		He shoots at the red dot on the screen instead of the green dot, vaguely remembering shooting at green dots, which are full of humans instead of Chingers like the red dots, is a courts-martial offense.
	www.strike-the-root.com /4/wallace/wallace21.html (772 words)

	ISL Fight #83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the southern gate, Bill the Galactic Hero and Killjoy!
		Five wounds are lost for Bill the Galactic Hero as his enemy pierces his chain mail.
		He looks for his partner, but Bill the Galactic Hero is too far away and Goug keeps him under control.
	www.angelfire.com /ny2/captainivarez/fight83.html (259 words)

	SFBookcase.com - Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars by Harry Harrison & David Bischoff - ...
		SFBookcase.com - Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars by Harry Harrison and David Bischoff - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars by Harry Harrison
		Bill is the perfect starship trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed.
	www.sfbookcase.com /viewbook.asp?bookno=2585 (160 words)

	Harry Harrison Index. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (with Robert Sheckley)
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (with Jack C. Haldeman II)
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell (with David Bischoff)
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/h/harrisonharry.html (90 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		* _Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves (Gollancz 0-575-04615-5, Oct ’89, £11.95, 236pp, hc) [Bill the Galactic Hero] Reprint (Avon 1989 as Bill the Galactic Hero Volume 1: The Planet of the Robot Slaves) humorous sf novel, in which Bill is pitted against Barsoomian apes and King Arthur’s knights, among others.
		* _Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell (with David F. Bischoff) (Gollancz 0-575-04983-9, Oct ’92, £14.99, 214pp, hc, cover by Mark Pacella) [Bill the Galactic Hero] Reprint (Avon 1991 as Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars) humorous sf novel.
		* _Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell (with David F. Bischoff) (Gollancz 0-575-05526-X, May ’93 [Apr ’93], £3.99, 214pp, pb, cover by Mark Pacella) [Bill the Galactic Hero] Reprint (Avon 1991 as Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars) humorous sf novel.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b219.html (2589 words)

	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves
		Book Information: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1989) [novel]
		Second of a series of novels about Bill, which aims to get "something anti-military into US publishing, which seems to be all pro-war." Harrison outlined other books in the series, which were written by other writers.
	www.iblist.com /book6162.htm (100 words)

	Amazon.com: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BILL - the perfect hero: ready to go anywhere, do anything to save his own neck, which is probably the only part of his body that is still his own...
		BILL - back in the Army Hospital for yet another transplant and looking forward to a spot of R and R (which every Trooper translates as Rutting and Rotgut), and some respite from his troublesome adventures...
		The nurses are steel robots, and he seems to have acquired a goat's foot - not for luck - at least, not the good kind.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0575052481?v=glance (398 words)

	Series List
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell [with Harry Harrison] (n.) Avon 1991
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Zombie Vampires [with Harry Harrison] (n.) Avon 1991
		Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Zombie Vampires [with Jack C. Haldeman, II] (n.) Avon 1991
	www.locusmag.com /index/f7.html (1171 words)

	[No title]
		Like his lesser-known Bill, The Galactic Hero series, the Rat books are fun, fast and not averse to taking a gentle (sometimes not so gentle) poke at humanity.
		"Bill, The Galactic Hero came about because I'd written Deathworld - which was very grim - and the first Rat book - which was very light - and I really wanted to do something with very fl humour.
		As mentioned earlier, the sequels to Bill are somewhat less acerbic than the original, though they do have their merits...
	www.octocon.com /1997/hharriso.htm (1668 words)

	All Hell Breaking Loose by Martin H. Greenberg - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		For all the years that BILL had served in the Troopers, with all the hard beds, hard heads and no creds, any booze on offer was probably embalming fluid, or worse.
		An assignment there promised bubbly, brandy and beer galore - enough to give BILL's right arms (both of them) at last some idea of just what they were for.
		Also published under the title: Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Hell (267 words)

	Bill the Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison - Microsoft Reader eBook
		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.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/66097-ebook.htm (454 words)

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