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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.
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Comic, unpretentious, classical in form and cool.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Harry Harrison
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Penguin, E̊KSMO
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780575055889
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Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved
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