num_pages: 164
description: Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th Class in the process. En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill's spaceship is involved in a supreme contest and by accident Bill is the man who saves the sihp and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade, the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered capital planet, Helior. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and nastily surprising ways...
language: English
title: Bill, the Galactic Hero
titlecomplete: Bill, the Galactic Hero (Bill, #1)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, War, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Comedy, Military Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor
ratings_count: 4470
series: Bill, the Galactic Hero
publisher: Gollancz