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Events snowball from there, and he soon finds that he has purchased three young sisters. The story is about Captain Pausert, an amiable, well-intentioned, but inexperienced young space ship captain who finds himself increasingly embroiled in wild adventures when he rescues a young female slave from an abusive owner. As is common with this author, it is set in a far-flung future in which humanity has spread across many planets in a substantial part of the galaxy. Schmitz expanded the novelette into a novel in 1966, and it is unusual in being relatively long. The Witches of Karres was originally a novelette published in the December 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. I loved them all, but I still love Witches best.
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Twelve of his stories are available from Project Gutenberg, and more are available from Free Speculative Fiction Online (including the entire full-length novel The Witches of Karres).
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I read all of it- Eternal Frontier, the Agent of Vega story sequence, all of his series set in the “ Hub”, and all of the numerous independent tales. This spurred me on to read more of Schmitz’s work, happily most of which are again available, both digitally and in hard copy, and a lot of it is available online for free. It straddles the SF/fantasy genres, can be equally enjoyed by adults and younger readers, and (very unusual for the time and genre) features female characters who are every bit as strong and interesting as the men. His fiction is characteristically light-hearted, fast-paced, amusing and entertaining. Partly, I believe that this is because it is as much a fantasy book as a science fiction book, but mostly it’s because the author’s writing is funny, imaginative, and clever, and his characters are delightfully quirky and likeable.īetween the 1940s and the 1970s Schmitz wrote a large number of short stories and several, fairly short, novels. The book is a rarity among older science fiction, it doesn’t show its age with ridiculous predictions or stilted dialog and literally feels as if it could’ve been written yesterday. I enjoyed it just as much, if not more than before. Recently I rediscovered a book that I loved long ago: The Witches of Karres by James H.
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Our Teen Librarian, Kelley, shares some of her favorite sci-fi: