Complete Short Fiction

by James H. Schmitz

Complete Short Fiction by James H. Schmitz
1943
GREENFACE
1949
AGENT OF VEGA
THE WITCHES OF KARRES
1950
THE TRUTH ABOUT CUSHGAR
SECOND NIGHT OF SUMMER
1951
SPACE FEAR
CAPTIVES OF THIEVE-STAR
THE END OF THE LINE
1952
THE ALTRUIST
1953
WE DON’T WANY ANY TROUBLE
CARETAKER
THE VAMPIRATE
1955
GRANDPA
THE TIES OF EARTH (Part 1 of a 2-Part Serial)
1956
THE TIES OF EARTH (Conclusion of a 2-Part Serial)
SOUR NOTE ON PALAYATA
1957
THE BIG TERRARIUM
1958
HARVEST TIME
1959
SUMMER GUESTS
1960
THE ILLUSIONISTS
1961
GONE FISHING
LION LOOSE
THE STAR HYACINTHS
1962
AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12
SWIFT COMPLETION
NOVICE
THE OTHER LIKENESS
ROGUE PSI
WATCH THE SKY
THESE ARE THE ARTS
THE WINDS OF TIME
LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND
1963
THE BEACON TO ELSEWHERE
ONENESS
HAM SANDWICH
1964
UNDERCURRENTS (First of Two Parts)
UNDERCURRENTS (Part 2)
CLEAN SLATE
THE MACHMEN
1965
A NICE DAY FOR SCREAMING
PLANET OF FORGETTING
THE PORK CHOP TREE
BALANCED ECOLOGY
GOBLIN NIGHT
TROUBLE TIDE
RESEARCH ALPHA
SLEEP NO MORE
1966
FADDIST
THE SEARCHER
1968
THE TUVELA (First of Two Parts)
THE TUVELA (Conclusion)
WHERE THE TIME WENT
THE CUSTODIANS
JUST CURIOUS
1969
ATTITUDES
WOULD YOU?
1970
RESIDENT WITCH
COMPULSION
1971
THE TELZEY TOY
COMPANY PLANET
GLORY DAY
POLTERGEIST
THE LION GAME (First of Two Parts)
THE LION GAME (Conclusion)
1972
CHILD OF THE GODS
THE SYMBIOTES
1973
CRIME BUFF
1974
ONE STEP AHEAD
AURA OF IMMORTALITY

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About the author

James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. 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. During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Corps. After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a business which manufactured trailers until they broke up the business in 1949.

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. His first published story was Greenface, published in August 1943 in Unknown. 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. Karres was nominated for a Hugo Award.

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. Baen have also published new works based in the Karres universe.

Schmitz died of congestive lung failure in 1981 after a five week stay in the hospital in Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife, Betty Mae Chapman Schmitz.