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Author:Robert Sheckley
Title:Dramocles
Subtitle:An Intergalactic Soap Opera
Publisher:  New English Library
Country:UK
Date:Jun 1985
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0450058212
Total Editions:4
First Published:  1983
Rating:2.0  Rate
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Robert Sheckley - Dramocles - Holt, Rinehart And Winston - Hardcover - USA - 003059037X (1983)

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ppint.
28th Jan 2020
 hodder & stoughton new english library imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by kate nichols (credited as designer) (cover mistakenly gives "space", not "soap", in subtitle)
cover price £2.25
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
 
 
ppint.
21st Nov 2017
 Rated 2/10
an interesting theoretical idea, that of introducing and partially developing multiple plots and plot devices one upon another in ever-more intensively recomplicating succession, but resolving none - until the final moment/final paragraphs of the final chapter, where all of the climaxes occur one after another in rapid succession, hopefully leaving the reader - if any have stuck it out this far - and, doubtless, the author, weak from the breakneck speed of the ultimate arrival of the long-delayed multiple climaxes.

(yes, the symbolism is obvious, and was equally doubtlessly intended.)

unfortunately, it doesn't work: the absence of even minor plot resolutions along the way make for a deeply unsatisfying slog of a read, which the pyrotechnical piling-atop-one-another of the multiple climaxes doesn't adequately reward.°

it arouses some interest to begin with, but it's too boring, for far too long, so that one's lost interest even in the plot lines one can remember, by the time the niagara of denouements commences, and continues, and continues. . .
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° - and probably inherently never could have, unless it were possible to reward readers synaesthesiastically along the way, with interwoven sensory evocations of the equivalents of polyphonic melodies moving through chords and passing dissonances by means of written descriptions of smell, touch, hearing, and sight - which yr hmbl srppnt. suspects might well potentially constitute the ultimate in sensual (and probably erotic) writing. which this most decidedly is not, alas.

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