Bill, The Galactic Hero
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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. And from there, things got even worse.
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Bill, the Galactic Hero is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1965 with contributions by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley.
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Creative, classic sci-fi
Not another boring sci-fi about serving the army, although still describing very familiar and painful army drafting in the beginning, with a lot of fantastic features—dangerous, out of nowhere spies, simple conversations about life, a lot of really funny situations. And the harsh reality of the army service is just to the point, unlike Starship Troopers.
It’s just one old fashioned, sci-fi idea after the other in really various environments. Also some descriptions, which are very few here overall, are really imaginative.
However, the ending is a bit too rough.
Makes me want to reread The Stainless Steel Rat and other great Harrison's stories.
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