James H. Schmitz

About The Author

James H. Schmitz (1911–1981) was born in Hamburg, Germany, to American parents. Aside from several trips to the USA, he lived in Germany until 1938, when the outbreak of WWII prompted his family to move to America. He sold his first story, “Greenface,” to the now-legendary magazine Unknown Worlds shortly before Pearl Harbor. By the time it was published, he was flying with the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific.

In 1949, he began publishing his Agents of Vega series in Astounding (later Analog), and was one of that magazine’s most popular contributors over the next three decades, introducing Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee, the heroines of his Federation of the Hub series. He was a master of space opera adventure, notably represented in his classic novel, The Witches of Karres, but also demonstrated in many other novels and shorter works.

Books by James H. Schmitz

They're Here!
Contributions by Poul Anderson, Anthony Boucher, Steve Diamond, Neil Gaiman, Zenna Henderson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Richard Matheson, Larry Niven, Lester del Rey, Spider Robinson, James H. Schmitz, Michael Shaara, Alex Shvartsman, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele and Theodore Sturgeon / Edited by Hank Davis and Sean C.W. Korsgaard
THE ALIENS ARE AMONG US! “Where is everybody?” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked after a discussion about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on t...
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Telzey Amberdon
By James H. Schmitz
Telzey Amberdon was only in her teens when she discovered that she was a telepath. Not only a telepath, but a xenotelepath, able to communicate mentally not just with humans, but with alien intelligences. And she turned out to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the history of the galactic c...
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