Galactic Effectuator

Galactic Effectuator is a 1980 science fiction/mystery anthology by American writer Jack Vance, containing the novella The Dogtown Tourist Agency and the novelette "Freitzke's Turn".

In The Dogtown Tourist Agency, he investigates a plan to deliver weapons to the fairly primitive "Gomaz" race on a distant planet called Maz.

"[1] Speculiction calls Galactic Effectuator "...just average Vance", that, while "[g]enerally comparable to the simplicity of his earlier short fiction", but "[l]acking the sparkling dialogue of the Cugel works or Araminta Station".

[2] Speculiction's review of The Dogtown Tourist Agency states that the "...climax of the story shows an imaginative twinkle lacking in much of the author's earlier short fiction, but not quite up to par with his more polished efforts."

Speculiction calls "Frietzke's Turn" "...[n]ot up to the same quality as The Dogtown Tourist Agency", and says that perhaps the short story was "...a loose sketch of what would become The Book of Dreams seven years later.