The stories are space opera, not particularly challenging or deep, generally built around a puzzle that Telzey has to figure out or a villain that she has to defeat, but they're still notable for a couple of reasons. She discovers in the first story that she has previously unknown psychic powers, which develop considerably over the course of the collection. The book's POV character is The hero and title character, Telzey, is a fifteen-year-old law student in the far-future universe of a star-spanning loose federation called the Hub. He was survived by his wife, Betty Mae Chapman Schmitz.īirthplace: Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, German Empire Birthdate: 15 October 1911 - 18 April 1981. Schmitz died of congestive lung failure in 1981 after a five week stay in the hospital in Los Angeles. Baen have also published new works based in the Karres universe.
In recent years, his novels and short stories have been republished by Baen Books (which bought the rights to his estate for $6500), edited (sometimes heavily edited) and with notes by Eric Flint. Most of his works are part of the "Hub" series, though his best known novel is the non-Hub The Witches of Karres, concerning juvenile "witches" with genuine psi-powers and their escape from slavery. His first published story was Greenface, published in August 1943 in Unknown. Schmitz is best known as a writer of space opera, and for strong female characters (including Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee) that didn't fit into the damsel in distress stereotype typical of science fiction during the time he was writing. After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a business which manufactured trailers until they broke up the business in 1949.
During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Corps. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, leaving before World War II broke out in Europe in 1939. James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents.
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