Phule's Company
- 232
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Phule’s Company” is a light, good-humoured military comedy set in space and narrated by the hero’s manservant. Willard J. Phule, heir to an arms fortune, sets out to turn a company of Space Legion misfits into a unit worth respecting, while his butler Beeker looks on. Some readers enjoy it as an easy, amusing read; others are put off by what they see as stereotyped and sexualised portrayals of women and minorities.
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About the book
Phule's Company is a comic military science fiction novel written by Robert Asprin and originally published in 1990. The book follows the comedic events as Willard J. Phule, the rich son of a millionaire arms manufacturer, reforms a group of misfits in the Space Legion, a fictional organization similar to the French Foreign Legion, into an "elite fighting force". The book is primarily narrated by Phule's butler Beeker. Phule's Company received generally positive reviews and made the New York Times Best Seller list.
Reading order · Phule's Company
Full order & progress →- Phule's CompanyThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - Phule's ParadisePhule's Paradise–Not ranked yet
- A Phule and His MoneyA Phule and His Money–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 52 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 52 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Phule's Company?
It has 232 pages — shorter than 89% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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