- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (6 Feb 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575052481
- ISBN-13: 978-0575052482
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 845,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bill's in trouble again. A hideous outer-space infection has transformed one of his feet into a satyr's hoof; he has two right hands; the nurses at the hospital where he lies recovering from his last escapade are steel robots. But soon he's off again in search of science fiction's greatest cliches.
About the Author
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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
BILL is kidnapped by a satyr - a mythical creature (half human, half goat) - and a transvestite satyr at that, in Bill, the Galactic Hero ... On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure by Harry Harrison and David Bischoff. Wisely ignoring the Bottled Brains fiasco, the story apparently continues from where Robot Slaves left off. Anyway, Bill finds himself in the paradisical Fields of Ozymandias, a place where mythological creatures run rampant and generally have a good time. Bill meets, and falls in love with, the indescribably beautiful Irma Feritayl (a girl with a serious cat fixation), but his plans of seduction fail when Irma is abducted by a frightening avian ghetto blaster mutation! Now, from here on things start getting a little bit complicated. For reasons that you don't need to know right now, Bill ends up with a dead and mouldering dove around his neck. He can only have the offending dove removed on the completion of two tasks: the rescue of Irma, and the achievement of a truce with the Chingers. With its rapidly moving plot, this story can be a little confusing at times; while it isn't up to the standards of the first two books, it is a definite improvement on the third. Watch out for some crazy surreal moments such as the wild west shootout at the No-Go Corral against outlaw spermatozoa!
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Just not funny, sorry.
27 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
There just wasn't anything funny or intelligent in this incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness babble. I was introduced to the first two BTGH books a long time ago by a friend and enjoyed them. I have also read several of the Stainless Steel Rat series and various others by Harry Harrison. I recently decided to start picking up the BTGH series and this is the second follow-up book in the series I have been disappointed with (the other being the planet of zombie vampires) and I think I won't be reading any more.
I'm not sure what the snide jabs at other authors is about either. They would be redeemable IF funny but they just come across as lame and petty, particularly in a book with such a low caliber of writing.
Given what I have read of HH in the past, the temptation is to believe this junk was churned out by the co-author and rubber-stamped by HH with his signature. That may be unfair though, Harrison's work has been a little uneven from time to time and maybe this was just a sustained low-point.
Either way, if you enjoyed the adventures of Bill in the first two books, you may want to pretend this one doesn't exist.
I'm not sure what the snide jabs at other authors is about either. They would be redeemable IF funny but they just come across as lame and petty, particularly in a book with such a low caliber of writing.
Given what I have read of HH in the past, the temptation is to believe this junk was churned out by the co-author and rubber-stamped by HH with his signature. That may be unfair though, Harrison's work has been a little uneven from time to time and maybe this was just a sustained low-point.
Either way, if you enjoyed the adventures of Bill in the first two books, you may want to pretend this one doesn't exist.
If you've read any cheese-ball sci-fi and loved it this is for you
25 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
If this is your first consideration of the Bill the Galactic Hero series consider this: 1) Do you like to laugh? 2) Do you laugh easily?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, preferably both, you'll enjoy this book.
As is common with most of Harrison's writing it relies on a number of sci-fi stereotypes and blows them out of proportion with hysterical results.
If you answered yes to either of these questions, preferably both, you'll enjoy this book.
As is common with most of Harrison's writing it relies on a number of sci-fi stereotypes and blows them out of proportion with hysterical results.
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