Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera
{{Short description|1983 novel by Robert Sheckley}}
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Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, published in 1983.
Plot summary
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera for White Dwarf #69, staying that it has hilarious scenes, like the completely irrelevant one in which minor characters try to gain narrative security by establish a sub-plot of their own; but overall it reads as though Sheckley was desperately making it up as he went along. Pretty good by some standards; insubstantial by Sheckley's own."{{cite magazine | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass | magazine =White Dwarf | issue =69 | pages =16 | publisher =Games Workshop | year = September 1985 }}
Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1983) in Locus, #269 June 1983https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?28275
- Review by Gene DeWeese (1983) in Science Fiction Review, November 1983
- Review by John Clute (1984) in Foundation, #30 March 1984
- Review [French] by Pierre-Noël Duillard? (1984) in Fiction, #350
- Review by Tom Easton (1984) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1984
- Review by Brian Stableford (1984) in Fantasy Review, November 1984
- Review by Alan Fraser (1985) in Paperback Inferno, #56