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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Telzey and Trigger

Compulsion (1970)
Resident Witch (1970)
Company Planet (1971)
Glory Day (1971)
Ti's Toys (1971)
Child of the Gods (1972)
The Symbiotes (1972)
Telzey Amberdon (Apr-2000)
Trigger and Friends (Jan-2001)

Book List in Order: 32 titles



    • / General Fiction
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    Ace Books, 1964. Mass market paperback original novel. Ace cover code F-314. One of the author's "Telzey Amberdon" stories, a young woman in the future with extraordinary psychic powers. Combines two previously published stories: "Novice" (1962) and...



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    Ace, 1981. Mass market paperback, later printing. This 1966 novel is a science fiction classic. It falls within the genre of space opera and features well-developed characters, a mix of both fantasy and hard science fiction as well as a sense of humo...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITE Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



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    THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...






  • The bluish-grey torsos and powerful arms were enclosed by webbings of straps, holding tools and weapons. The bulging eyes on the big round heads were double-lensed..Seventy years before Parahuans came out of space to launch simultaneous attacks on a ...



  • Telzey Amberdon, the galaxy's most powerful telepath, encounters a manipulating scientist, helps rescue a kidnapped executive, becomes involved in political intrigue, and visits a body remodeling planet...



  • THEY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING . After the Galactic Empire crumbled and fell, the Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let alone prosper. But prosper it did...





  • MEET TELZEY AMBERDON -- SHE'S NOBODY'S TOY Telzey Amberdon was only in her teens when she .1- discovered that she was a telepath. Not only a telepath, but a xenotelepath, able to communicate mentally not lust with humans, but with alien intelligen...



  • THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, th...



  • IF BUREAUCRACIES HAD STARSHIPS Con games. Corrupt governors. Deadly rivalries between departments of the same government. And, of course, the long arm of the Mob. Even in our future among the stars, some things never change--except that the govern...



  • Espionage and Intrigue in the Far Reaches of the Galaxy from the Creator of Telzey Amberdon and Trigger ArgeeThe Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let along...



  • Ape Man, Space Man Earth's colonists have spread throughout the cosmos, and have almost divided into two separate species. One is the Swimmers, who have adapted to living in zero-gravity, and regard themselves as the next step in evolution, and th...



  • MEET TRIGGER ARGEE....Half a block from the shopping center, a row of spacers on planet-leave came rollicking cheerily toward her.... Trigger shifted toward the edge of the sidewalk to let them pass. As the line swayed up on her left, there was a sha...








  • James Henry Schmitz (1911-1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. He is best known for space opera and strong female characters (such as Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee) that didn't fit into the damsel in distress...



  • On a bleak, distant unchartered world two ships lay wrecked and a lone man stared at a star hyacinth. Its brilliance burned into his retina ... and he knew that men could easily kill and kill for that one beauty alone....



  • James H. Schmitz and "Space Opera" were almost synonymous. He was best known for his tales of interstellar secret agents and, galactic criminals, and particularly for heroines like Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee. This collection of stories, while ...



  • An Incident on Route 12 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James H. Schmitz is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of James...




  • There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics, nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing. And there is nothing like enforced, uninterrupted contemplation to learn to distinguish one from another.......



  • It gets difficult to handle the problem of a man who has a real talent that you need badly -- and he cannot use it if he knows it's honest!...





  • It's one thing to try to get away with what you believe to be a lie and be caught at it- and something different, and far worse sometimes, to find it isn't a lie .. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) ...






  • The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest -- but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is.... We are delighted to publish this classic book ...



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    "Why shouldn't we continue with the plan until . . ."

    Kilby interrupted without change of expression.

    "Until we hear some day that billions of human beings are dying on the Federation's worlds?"

    Halder kept his eyes fixed on the traffic p...



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    John W. Campbell wrote this for a blurb for this tale when it appeared in Analog: He contracted for a charter trip -- but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out -- and he wanted more than service!

    James H. Schmitz was...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James H. Schmitz has published 32 books.

James H. Schmitz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lion Loose, was published in January 2018.

The first book by James H. Schmitz, The Universe Against Her, was published in January 1964.

Yes. James H. Schmitz has 1 series.