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If you know what a vatch is, you're at the right page!
The stories of James H. Schmitz were largely published between 1949 and 1973, in Science Fiction pulps like Astounding Science Fiction and Galaxy.
James H. Schmitz always stormed through an exciting tale, never stopping to see if his readers had caught up. His elaborate and consistent galactic politics, technology, and assortment of aliens and monsters, paved the way for future SciFi writers with well-planned future history. For his time, or anyone else's, though, he was known for his strong characterization of females, and even the elderly, in rock 'em sock 'em action yarns.
The best BIG news is - Baen Books has published The Complete Federation of the Hub in five volumes. Find all of your favourite James H. Schmitz stories in these new anthologies. There's been some discussion of them on the Federation Comweb - see below - and also the Baen message board.
Great Stuff!
The Schmitz Encyclopedia is the definitive site on James H. Schmitz! Guy Gordon has added artwork from original publications, both colour covers and black and white line drawings, essays on his work, letters, and photographs. His aim is to post everything in the world on JHS, and by golly! - I think he's got a shot at it!
The Federation Comweb is up and running! To subscribe to the Federation Comweb, send email to listserv@white-crane.com with the following in the BODY: Subscribe [email address] Comweb
If you have any problems with the List, please email Guy Gordon at gordon@white-crane.com
- Agent of Vega
- The Demon Breed
- The Eternal Frontiers
- The Lion Game
- A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub
- A Pride of Monsters
- A Tale of Two Clocks
- Legacy
- The Telzey Toy
- The Universe Against Her
- The Witches of Karres
- The Best of James H. Schmitz
- Telzey Amberdon
- T 'n T: Telzey & Trigger
- Trigger & Friends
- The Hub: Dangerous Territories
- Agent of Vega & Other Stories with a preface by Mercedes Lackey
Stories in Chronological Order
Books
For all of the books I have tried to include publishing information, the number of pages, the original selling price, and cover art when credited. If anyone can supply me with corrections or additional information, please email me.
Added information! Each book has links to other people's pages. At Guy Gordon's or Pat Palmer's pages you can see cover art or read synopses, opinions and reviews.
Hard cover - Gnome Press, NY, l960, pp 191 $3.00
Mayflower,
Tempo Books, NY, 5403, 1972, wpps 186, $.95
Contents: 'Agent of Vega' The Third Coordinator manoevers Zone Agent Iliff into confronting his nemesis, the pirate U1, while breaking in a new Lannai operative, Pagadan - the High Queen of Lar Sancaya.
'The Illusionists' New Zone agent Pagadan turfs a telep two off his host planet.
'The Truth About Cushgar' The Third Coordinator tells the real dirt behind how the Vegan Confederacy subdued Cushgar or how Zone Agent Zamm found what she was looking for, with a little help from her friends.
'The Second Night of Summer' Zone Agent Grandma Wannattel deals with a Halpa invasion on her rural home planet.
Hard cover - SF Book Club, 1968 pp 190
Ace, NY, H105, l968, wpps 157, $.60 - cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon Ace 2nd printing l979, wpps 214, $1.95 - cover art by Bob Adragna
Hard cover - MacDonald, 1969
Hard cover - UK SF Book Club, 1971
Nile Etland and her mutant otter companions have to bluff the Everliving into thinking she's a superior being, to try to save Dr. Ticos Cay, and the water world of Nandy-Cline.
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1974
Culturally different factions make uneasy allies to fight a destructive and powerful creature on a frontier planet. (Monster alert! - giant bipeds.)
Daw Books, NY, UQ1038, 1973, wpps 157, $.95 cover art by F. Kelly Freas
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1976 ISBN 0 283 983124 (hard cover)
Hamlyn, 1979
Ace, 1982, 48433-6 $2.25
Telzey Amberdon searches for rogue 'psis in a devilish 3 dimensional maze.
The stories 'Goblin Night', 'Sleep No More', and other material were incorporated into this novel.
A Nice Day for Screaming and
Other Tales of the Hub
Chilton,
Contents: 'A Nice Day for Screaming'Newscaster Keth Deboll makes history broadcasting from pseudospace.
'The Winds of Time' A stranded time traveller charters the Silver Queen, figuring he can highjack it back to his own time. (Monster alert! - the janandra.)
'The Other Likeness' Shapechangers from Kalechi are on the run from Federation agents.
'The Tangled Web' (formerly 'The Star Hyacinths')Detective Wellan Dasinger encounters dangerous opposition attempting to salvage a wreck containing a cache of the valuable gems known as star hyacinths - first from the competition, and then from the wreck itself.
'The Machmen' Machine-modified humans with a group mind intend to seperate from the Federation.
'Balanced Ecology' Young Auris and Ilf wonder why everything on their land seems a bit edgy when their flashy Uncle Kugus visits with a business proposition.
Hard cover -
Contents: Introduction,
'Lion Loose...' Heslet (Bad News) Quillan infiltrates an organized crime ring on a large hotel ship in space, but has to tame a Hlat predator before they scuttle the ship or the Hlat scuttles them.
'The Searcher' A Goyal from The Pit wants it's key locator back.
'The Winds of Time' A stranded time traveller charters the Silver Queen, figuring he can highjack it back to his own time. (Monster alert! - the janandra.)
'The Pork Chop Tree' Absent minded Professor Mantelish shows Trigger Argee an interesting new plant, the Hana, that seems to really, really like people.
'Greenface' The owner of a fishing camp pits himself against a new kind of beast in the forest.
Hard cover - SF Book Club/Torquil 1962
Hard cover -Dodd, Mead & Co., NY, 1962, pp 206, $3.50
Later published as ..... Legacy
Many unscrupulous characters in the Federation wish to obtain a plasmoid, but no one seems to really know what they are, or what they are capable of. Trigger Argee and Major Quillan have their hands full trying to second guess the bad guys.
Daw Books, NY, UQ1086, 1973, wpps 175, $.95 cover art by F. Kelly Freas
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1976
Ace, 1982
Hamlyn, 1983
Ace 0-441-80036-X (3rd printing), 1984, $2.75
Contents: 'The Telzey Toy' Telzey Amberdon is cloned by a fiendish puppetmaster.
'Resident Witch' Telzey tries to save a good man's life, when a vengeful younger brother seems bent on his destruction.
'Compulsion' Trigger Argee enlists Telzey Amberdon, Psych Director Pilch, and the Old Galactics to help attempting communication with the Hana.
'Company Planet' Telzey uncovers a secret project on a planet run by a cosmetic surgery company.
Ace, NY, F-314, 1964, wpps 160, $.40
Hard cover - Greg Press, 1981
Novelization of 'Novice' and 'Undercurrents'.
Hard cover - Chilton,
Ace, NY, A-13, 1966, pp 286, $.75 cover art by Leo & Jane Dillon
Gollancz, 1988
Captain Pausert and young Goth might be able to dodge pirates and spies, and save the Universe from Worm Weather, but a meddlesome vatch drawn to Pausert's latent powers, seems to think it's all a figment of it's own imagination.
Mark L. Olson, editor, New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA)
Press,
Contents: Introduction by Janet Kagan 'Mischief in the Spaceways'
'Grandpa' The Regent will inspect
'Balanced Ecology' Young Auris and Ilf wonder why everything on their land seems a bit edgy when their flashy Uncle Kugus visits with a business proposition.
'The Second Night of Summer' Zone Agent Grandma Wannattel deals with a Halpa invasion on her rural home planet.
'Novice' Telzey Amberdon feels that her pet Tick-Tock, a rare crest cat, is trying to tell her something.
'Goblin Night' While on a camping trip with friends, Telzey Amberdon is lured to visit a hermetic handicapped psi. (Monster alert! - goblin or spook)
'Lion Loose...' Heslet (Bad News) Quillan infiltrates an organized crime ring on a large hotel ship in space, but has to tame a Hlat predator before they scuttle the ship or the Hlat scuttles them.
'Sour Note on Palayata' Pilch, the Psych Service, and a civil servant investigate the mind of a typically inscruitable Palayatan.
'The Custodians' A spacer of dubious experience visits his sister on a private asteroid, and brings along some unexpected houseguests. (Monster alert! - toziens.)
'Just Curious' A man who can provide information about a person by holding an object of theirs, gets an oddly familiar new client.
Good Bibliography with word count and chart of reoccurring characters.
Telzey Amberdon The Complete Federation of the Hub, Volume 1
Eric Flint, editor, Baen Books, Riverdale, NY 2000, 436 pp., ISBN 0-671-57851-0, $6.99US Paperback. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
Contents:
'Novice'
'Undercurrents'
'Poltergeist'
'Goblin Night' While on a camping trip in
'Sleep No More' Telzey battles a psi monster in
'The Lion Game'
'Blood of Nalakia'
'The Star Hyacinths' Detective Wellan Dasinger encounters dangerous opposition attempting to salvage a wreck containing a cache of the valuable gems known as star hyacinths - first from the competition, and then from the wreck itself.
Afterword by Eric Flint
The Federation of the Hub: An Overview (essay) by Guy Gordon
Telzey & Trigger The Complete Federation of the Hub, Volume 2
Eric Flint, editor, Baen Books, Riverdale, NY 2000, 403 pp., ISBN 0-671-57879-0, $6.99US Paperback. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
Contents:
'Company Planet'
'Resident Witch' Telzey tries to save a good man's life, when a vengeful younger brother seems bent on his destruction.
'Compulsion' Trigger Argee enlists Telzey Amberdon, Psych Director Pilch, and the Old Galactics to help attempting communication with the Hana.
'Glory Day'
'Child of the Gods'
'Ti's Toys' Telzey Amberdon is cloned by a fiendish puppetmaster.
'The Symbiotes'
Afterword by Eric Flint
That Certain Something (essay) by Guy Gordon
Trigger & Friends The Complete Federation of the Hub, Volume 3
Eric Flint, editor, Baen Books, Riverdale, NY 2000, 474 pp., ISBN 0-671-31966-3, $6.99US Paperback. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
Contents:
'Harvest Time' Trigger Argee and Holati Tate study the plankton harvesters of Manon.
'Lion Loose' Heslet (Bad News) Quillan infiltrates an organized crime ring on a large hotel ship in space, but has to tame a Hlat predator before they scuttle the ship or the Hlat scuttles them.
'Aura of Immortality'
'Forget It'
'Legacy' Many unscrupulous characters in the Federation wish to obtain a plasmoid, but no one seems to really know what they are, or what they are capable of. Trigger Argee and Major Quillan have their hands full trying to second guess the bad guys.
'Sour Note on Palayata' Pilch, the Psych Service, and a civil servant investigate the mind of a typically inscruitable Palayatan.
Afterword by Eric Flint
The Psychology Service: Immune System of the Hub (essay) by Guy Gordon
The Hub: Dangerous Territory The Complete Federation of the Hub, Volume IV
Eric Flint, editor, Baen Books, Riverdale, NY 2001, 473 pp., ISBN 0-671-31984-1, $6.99US Paperback. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
Contents:
'The Searcher' A Goyal from The Pit wants it's key locator back.
'Grandpa' The Regent will inspect
'Balanced Ecology' Young Auris and Ilf wonder why everything on their land seems a bit edgy when their flashy Uncle Kugus visits with a business proposition.
'A Nice Day for Screaming' Newscaster Keth Deboll makes history broadcasting from pseudospace.
'The Winds of Time' A stranded time traveller charters the Silver Queen, figuring he can highjack it back to his own time. (Monster alert! - the janandra.)
'The Machmen' Machine-modified humans with a group mind intend to seperate from the Federation.
'The Other Likeness' Shapechangers from Kalechi are on the run from Federation agents.
'Attitudes' The breakaway planet of Malatlo was destroyed; but the Federation has plans to make it live again.
'Trouble
Tide'
'The Demon Breed' Nile Etland and her mutant otter companions have to bluff the Everliving into thinking she's a superior being, to try to save Dr. Ticos Cay, and the water world of Nandy-Cline.
Afterword by Eric Flint
Recurring Characters in the Hub Series (list) by Guy Gordon
Agent of Vega and Other Stories
Eric Flint, editor, Baen Books, Riverdale, NY 2001, 567 pp., ISBN 0-671-31847-0, $7.99US Paperback. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
Contents:
Preface by Mercedes Lackey
'Agent of Vega' The Third Coordinator manoevers Zone Agent Iliff into confronting his nemesis, the pirate U1, while breaking in a new Lannai operative, Pagadan - the High Queen of Lar Sancaya.
'The Illusionists' New Zone agent Pagadan turfs a telep two off his host planet.
'The Second Night of Summer' Zone Agent Grandma Wannattel deals with a Halpa invasion on her rural home planet.
'The Truth About Cushgar' The Third Coordinator tells the real dirt behind how the Vegan Confederacy subdued Cushgar or how Zone Agent Zamm found what she was looking for, with a little help from her friends.
'The Custodians'
'Gone Fishing'
'The Beacon to Elsewhere'
'The End of the Line'
'Watch the Sky'
'Greenface' The owner of a fishing camp pits himself against a new kind of beast in the forest.
'Rogue Psi' Has a Rogue telepath been standing in the way of human progress?
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