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Their Majesties' Bucketeers

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Their Majesties' Bucketeers
AuthorL. Neil Smith
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNorth American Confederacy
GenreAlternate history
Published1981
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Preceded byThe Venus Belt (by publication), Taflak Lysandra
(by chronology) 
Followed byThe Nagasaki Vector (by publication),
None chronology 

Their Majesties' Bucketeers is a novel by L. Neil Smith published in 1981 as part of his North American Confederacy series.[1]

Plot summary

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Their Majesties' Bucketeers is a novel in which Offe Woom investigates the death of a professor on a world populated by trisexual tripedal aliens.[2]

Reception

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Greg Costikyan reviewed Their Majesties' Bucketeers in Ares Magazine #11 and commented that "Bucketeers is an appealing novel, for three reasons: first, the character of the aliens, who are very human while remaining very alien; second, the Victorian character of their civilization, and third, the apparent verve and enjoyment with which Smith writes."[2]

Reviews

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  • Review by Jeff Frane (1981) in Locus, #246 July 1981[3]
  • Review by Debbie Notkin (1982) in Rigel Science Fiction, #3 Winter 1982

References

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  1. ^ "Uchronia: The North American Confederacy Series". www.uchronia.net.
  2. ^ a b Costikyan, Greg (November 1981). "Books". Ares Magazine (11). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 24.
  3. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?664