Read Series: Bill, The Galactic Hero
by Author Harry Harrison
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991)
Bill, the Galactic Hero, is a human space trooper who has three arms, some tusks, and is regrowing his right foot. His new assignment is as Military Policeman to the starship Bounty, which is taking a bunch of prisoners to the front line of the Chinger war. The ship is a bit older and doesn't hav...
Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure (1993)
BILL - the army's made him what he is today - the perfect Starship Trooper, proud possessor of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion. BILL - this time he really put his foot (the Swiss-Army one with the special attachments, secret compartments, collapsible mess-kit a...
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Robot Slaves (1989)
It took Harry Harrison nearly 40 years to write a sequel to his underrated anti-war satirical novel, "Bill the Galactic Hero", and, while it's not nearly as clever, scathing, and apropos as the original, "Bill the Galactic Hero: The Planet of the Robot Slaves" is still humorous and entertaining.P...
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1991)
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...
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991)
BARWORLD! 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. BARWORLD! An assignment there promised bubbly, brandy and beer galore - enough to give BILL's right arms (both of them) at...
Bill, the Galactic Hero (2004)
I once met a woman in a bookstore who was in the process of buying Harry Harrison's 1965 classic "Bill, the Galactic Hero." She told me that she'd read it many times already, and that it was the funniest book ever. Well, I've never forgotten that conversation, and had long been meaning to ascerta...