Their Majesties' Bucketeers is a novel by L. Neil Smith published in 1981 as part of his North American Confederacy series.
Plot summary Their Majesties' Bucketeers is a novel in which Offe Woom investigates the death of a professor on a world populated by trisexual tripedal aliens.
Reception 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."
Reviews Review by Jeff Frane (1981) in Locus, #246 July 1981https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?664 Review by Debbie Notkin (1982) in Rigel Science Fiction, #3 Winter 1982
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