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Author:Harry Harrison
Title:Bill, The Galactic Hero
Publisher:  Penguin
Country:UK
Date:May 1969
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour
Cat#:2970
Total Editions:4
First Published:  1965
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Harry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero - Berkley - Paperback - USA (1966)

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ppint.
2nd Feb 2024
 one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
 
 
ppint.
12th Jun 2021
 considerable expansion of ''the starsloggers'' (novella) galaxy vol.23 #2, 12/1964
(with four b+w illustrations by john giunta)

franchised decades later by harry harrison, who retained primary auctorial credits and ownership:

bill the galactic hero franchised series:
title - credited co-author:

#1: ''bill the galactic hero: the planet of robot slaves'' (1989), q.v. - (no co-author)
aka ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of robot slaves'' (1989), q.v.
#2: ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of bottled brains'' (1990), q.v. - robert sheckley
#3: ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of tasteless pleasure'' (1991), q.v. - david bischoff
aka ''bill, the galactic hero: planet of tasteless pleasure'' (2011), (e-book)
#4: ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of zombie vampires'' (1991), q.v. - jack c. haldeman II
aka ''bill, the galactic hero: planet of zombie vampires'' (2012), (e-book)
#5: ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of ten thousand bars'' (1991), q.v. - david bischoff
aka ''bill, the galactic hero... on the planet of the hippies from hell'' (1992), q.v.
aka ''bill, the galactic hero on... the planet of the hippies from hell'' (1993), q.v.
#6: ''bill, the galactic hero: the final incoherent adventure'' (1992), q.v. - david harris
aka ''bill, the galactic hero... the final incoherent adventure '' (uk 1993 & ff.) q.v.

and there is a further short story by harry harrison alone:
''bill, the galactic hero's happy holiday''; the one original story in the elsewise reprint collection:
#a: ''galactic dreams'' harry harrison (1994), q.v.
 
 
ppint.
15th Mar 2020
 penguin books first printing, first uk p/b

cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 4/- (check for overseas territories prices)
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
 

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