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James H. Schmitz (1911–1981)

Autor/a de The Witches of Karres

113+ obres 5,664 Membres 106 Ressenyes 29 preferits

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Obres de James H. Schmitz

The Witches of Karres (1966) — Autor — 1,128 exemplars
Telzey Amberdon (2000) — Autor — 482 exemplars
TNT: Telzey & Trigger (2000) — Autor — 428 exemplars
The Universe Against Her (1964) — Autor — 362 exemplars
The Demon Breed (1968) 358 exemplars
The Hub : Dangerous Territory (2001) — Autor — 353 exemplars
The Lion Game (1973) 322 exemplars
Trigger & Friends (2001) 316 exemplars
Legacy (1962) 295 exemplars
The Telzey toy and other stories (1970) 288 exemplars
Agent of Vega [4-story collection] (1960) — Autor — 274 exemplars
Agent of Vega & Other Stories [11-story collection] (2001) — Autor — 274 exemplars
Eternal Frontier (2002) 156 exemplars
A Pride of Monsters (1970) 79 exemplars
The Eternal Frontiers (1848) 78 exemplars
The Best of James H. Schmitz (1991) 69 exemplars
The Winds of Time (2009) 21 exemplars
The Star Hyacinths (2009) 16 exemplars
Lion Loose [short story] (2011) 15 exemplars
Watch the Sky (2010) 14 exemplars
Novice [short story] (2011) 12 exemplars
Ham Sandwich (2010) 12 exemplars
Grandpa [short story] 11 exemplars
The Other Likeness (2010) 10 exemplars
Gone Fishing (2010) 10 exemplars
Alpha et Oméga (collection) (1977) — Autor — 9 exemplars
Oneness [short story] (1963) 7 exemplars
Undercurrents 5 exemplars
Captives Of The Thieve-star (2016) 5 exemplars
Planet Of Forgetting (1965) 5 exemplars
Goblin Night 5 exemplars
The Custodians 4 exemplars
Spacemaster (1964) 4 exemplars
Greenface 4 exemplars
The Searcher (1966) 4 exemplars
Company Planet 4 exemplars
The Machmen (1964) 3 exemplars
Compulsion 3 exemplars
The Pork Chop Tree (1965) 3 exemplars
Sleep No More 3 exemplars
Resident Witch 3 exemplars
Trouble Tide 3 exemplars
Caretaker 3 exemplars
The Symbiotes (1972) 3 exemplars
Tuvela 1 2 exemplars
Oneness (2016) 2 exemplars
The Ties of Earth 2 exemplars
The End of the Line 2 exemplars
Research Alpha 2 exemplars
Poltergeist 2 exemplars
One Step Ahead 2 exemplars
The Illusionists 2 exemplars
Rogue Psi 2 exemplars
Crime Buff 2 exemplars
Just Curious 2 exemplars
Summer Guests 2 exemplars
These Are the Arts (1962) 2 exemplars
Demonska vrsta (1999) 1 exemplars
Plazmoidy 1 exemplars
Prądy czasu 1 exemplars
Amazing Stories, November 1962 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Race démoniaque (1968) 1 exemplars
Science Fiction Special 27 (1978) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Novice (2016) 1 exemplars
Where the Time Went 1 exemplars
The Lion Game 1 1 exemplars
The Lion Game 2 1 exemplars
The Altruist 1 exemplars
The Big Terrarium 1 exemplars
Clean Slate 1 exemplars
Faddist 1 exemplars
Swift Completion 1 exemplars
Would You? 1 exemplars
Undercurrents 2 1 exemplars
Attitudes 1 exemplars
Ties Of Earth 1 1 exemplars
Ties Of Earth 2 1 exemplars
Tuvela 2 1 exemplars
Undercurrents 1 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Wizard of Karres (2004) — Series Creator — 526 exemplars
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963) — Col·laborador — 449 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 433 exemplars
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Col·laborador — 400 exemplars
Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) — Col·laborador — 255 exemplars
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Col·laborador — 246 exemplars
The World Turned Upside Down (2005) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
Tomorrow's Children (1966) — Col·laborador — 197 exemplars
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980) — Col·laborador — 193 exemplars
The Science Fiction Bestiary (1972) — Col·laborador — 145 exemplars
A Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Col·laborador — 144 exemplars
Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction (1966) — Col·laborador — 139 exemplars
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) — Col·laborador — 134 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 2: Witches (1984) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Analog: The Best of Science Fiction (1982) — Autor — 126 exemplars
Spectrum 5 (1952) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
Five-Odd (1954) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 (1966) — Autor — 109 exemplars
New Writings in SF-3 (1964) — Col·laborador — 105 exemplars
Analog 2 (1962) — Col·laborador — 99 exemplars
The Good Old Stuff (1998) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
Unknown Worlds : Tales from Beyond (1988) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) (1984) — Col·laborador — 79 exemplars
Decade: The 1950s (1978) — Autor — 69 exemplars
Mind to Mind (1971) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Assignment in Tomorrow: An Anthology (1954) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Towards Infinity (1938) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
SF: Authors' Choice 2 (1970) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
On Our Way to the Future (1970) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
Analog Anthology #3: Children of the Future (1982) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The Folio Science Fiction Anthology (2016) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
14 Great Tales of ESP (1969) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
This side of infinity (1972) — Autor — 34 exemplars
The Baen Big Book of Monsters (2014) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Tomorrow 1 (1971) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
The Universes of E.E. Smith (1968) — Introducció — 24 exemplars
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2013) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Best from Amazing Stories (1973) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Exploring the Horizons (2000) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Space Pioneers (1954) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXV, No. 3 (May 1970) (1970) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1955 02 (1955) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Col·laborador, algunes edicions13 exemplars
Galaxy Science Fiction 1950 December, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1950) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Second Astounding Science Fiction Anthology (1952) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Alfa Vier: SF-Verhalen (1976) 12 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1951 03 (1951) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXIII, No. 3 (May 1964) (1964) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1956 11 (1956) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1951 07 (1951) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Space Police (1956) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 3 (1990) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1949 12 (1949) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Things From Outer Space (2016) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Infinite Web (1977) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
To The Stars: Eight Stories of Science Fiction (1971) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (1983) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Science Fiction Stories 1 (1971) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Ullstein 2000 sf-stories 67. Drei Erzählungen (1977) — Autor — 6 exemplars
Nature's Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race (1978) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 25 (1973) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
10 Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Masterpieces for Hardcore Fans Only! (2009) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Saturn, May 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No. 2) (1957) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Il sesto palazzo e altri racconti (1965) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Avontuur in ruimte & tijd nummer 3 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Converses

June Group Read: Exploring the worlds of James H. Schmitz a 75 Books Challenge for 2019 (juliol 2019)
Les sorcières de Karres a SF & Fantasy (octubre 2012)
Sci fi -read in 1990 a Name that Book (agost 2010)

Ressenyes

This should have been a fun read, another of Schmitz's stories about teenage girls with psychic powers, as per The Witches of Karres. Unfortunately, there's a lot of telling/info dumping and the Telzey character is what I would classify as a Mary Sue, from classic Trek fanfic days, that is, a female character who is perfect and whom everyone loves. The only difference is that the book lacks the romantic element - but basically the character is so perfect - genius, good looking, develops increasingly fantastic telepathic and other psionic powers - that there's no real drama. The only interesting thing was her relationship with the large intelligent cat of the first story, and how she has to save him, but he is subsequently dropped.… (més)
 
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kitsune_reader | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Nov 23, 2023 |
The third Schmitz book I've read and the second one about Telzey. These books follow a pattern. The Telzey character is like a cardboard cut out, in that she has no empathy or emotions of any kind. And her mental powers keep becoming more superhuman each story. With the lack of morals as well, in terms of prying into other people's minds and restructuring their personality to make them nicer people, she comes across as monstrous but it is clear that isn't how the author wants the reader to see her.

It is so far away from how a real teenage girl would act/react it suggests that the author lacked empathy with other people. The stories set up ingenious situations but lack real drama - even in the Witches of Karres which isn't quite so bad - there is a wimp out every time some excitement needs to be racked up. Things are resolved far too simply, by coincidence or in the case of the Telzey books by her general ability to do just about anything.
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kitsune_reader | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Nov 23, 2023 |
Some were really good; others not.
 
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Jeffrey_G | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Nov 22, 2022 |
What an interesting little book. The stories seem like straight up adventure, but they have odd misdirections, often where some personal goal is the real story instead of the obvious political spy adventure.

These stories were first published in 1949-51, so I expect that readers would have immediately recognized the planet-wide dictator as Hitler. He uses mind control and is slowly going insane. He's started mass murders, but they populace doesn't know it yet. That makes me think that these (and maybe other spy stories) are a reaction to the experience of WWII -- is there some way to defeat a powerful dictator without millions of casualties?

But you don't have to think that hard. You can just enjoy these.
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wunder | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Feb 3, 2022 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
113
També de
85
Membres
5,664
Popularitat
#4,371
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
106
ISBN
124
Llengües
3
Preferit
29

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