Galactic Effectuator
Galactic Effectuator is a 1980 science fiction short novel and a long short story by American writer Jack Vance.
Plot summary
The sleuth Miro Hetzel, who calls himself a "galactic effectuator", resolves two mysteries in this combined short novel and short story. In "The Dogtown Tourist Agency", he investigates a plan to deliver weapons to the fairly primitive "Gomaz" race on a distant planet called Maz. In the short story "Freitzke's Turn", Hetzel has to track down a rogue doctor who has stolen some of a patient's vital organs.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews generally praises the "...pleasures of the Vance intelligence and the Vance prose style", but calls this volume a "...trifle exiguous", as "...there is a lot that might profitably have been left in here in the way of plot", as "...neither mystery is worth the elegance expended on it". [1]In all the review states that the volume has "[m]uch charm, little body."[2]
References
- ^ "Galactic Effectuator". www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Galactic Effectuator". www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews.