- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (13 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 057505526X
- ISBN-13: 978-0575055261
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 901,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bill is the perfect starship trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed. He'll also do almost anything to save his neck. Now he's been sent to Barworld, home planet of the finest beverages in the universe. But can Bill survive an entire planet of blondes, booze and bathtubs of champagne?
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Harry Harrison (1925 -) Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925. He is 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 is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto, the most popular of the constructed international languages, which appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult film Soylent Green. Harry Harrison lives in the Republic of Ireland.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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ON loan to the GBI, Bill is sent on a special mission to the ultimate trooper's paradise - Barworld, in Bill, the Galactic Hero ... On the Planet of The Hippies from Hell (published in the US as: Bill, the Galactic Hero ... On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars) by Harry Harrison and David Bischoff. Along with fellow agent Elliot Methadrine (a G-man - he says "Gee" a lot and reminds Bill of his old buddy Eager Beager - and look what happened to him), Bill's mission is to investigate a series of Time/Space disturbances emanating from Barworld and to stop the Chingers, believed to be at the bottom of the problem, achieving time travel. But who is the wild eyed and hairy hippie hitman who nearly assassinates Bill and how does he vanish into thin air? Who is the equally hairy man who offers to tell Bill the meaning of life itself before he also vanishes? And to what lengths will Bill go to get a drink? Will he really put on a frock to get into an establishment like Uncle Nancy's Cross-Dressing Emporium? All these questions are answered (and complicated even further) in this highly enjoyable and improbable tale. Absolutely ridiculous but fun - and recommended.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Not the best but good
8 Mar 2002
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Just so people don't get confused, I thought it might be a good idea to mention here that this is exactly the same book as Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars, or if it isn't it's virtually the same. On the whole the book is good, although I must say it isn't as good as some of the others in the series. It has its amusing moments, but it is a bit on the bizarre side, no denying. If you enjoyed the previous outings of Bill then you ought to read this one for continuity sake if nothing else. I know this isn't a stellar review, but it's still a good book and worth the time it takes to read.
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