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Author:	Robert Sheckley
Title:	Dramocles
Subtitle:	An Intergalactic Soap Opera
Publisher:	Holt, Rinehart And Winston
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1983
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	003059037X
Total Editions:	4
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ppint. 13th Oct 2023		the isbn13 is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted the isbn13 was not invented for a bit under two decades yet



ppint. 28th Oct 2023		hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited; still unattributed sfaik (- no-one's owned up to it - ?) cover (d-j) price £8.95 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



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 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



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. . . . . ° - 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. (this review is from another edition of this book) 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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Other Editions

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Robert Sheckley - Dramocles - New English Library - Paperback - UK - 0450058212 (1985)

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Robert Sheckley - Dramocles - Ediciones Martínez Roca - Paperback - Spain - 9788427008885 (1984)

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Robert Sheckley - Dramocles - New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton - Hardcover - UK - 0450060632 (1984)