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Bill the Galactic Hero, Fiction, Science fiction
BILL - the army's made him what he is today - the perfect Starship Trooper, proud possess of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion.
BILL - this time he's really put his foot (the Swiss-Army one with the special attachments, secret compartments, collapsible mess-kit and condom dispenser) right in it.
BILL's been volunteered to join a suicide squad run by Captain Cadaver to the well-known hell-hole planet of Eyerack. The orders are DEATH OR GLORY - and GLORY made a point of never returning the invitation to the war. So. Can this really be IT The Long Goodbye Zero Hour Harmonicas at dawn The end of a brilliantly undistinguished career of military mishaps What can I tell you
This IS BILL's final incoherent adventure!
Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (1925-2012) Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925. He was 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 was 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 was perhaps best known for his seminal novel of overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult film Soylent Green.
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