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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Witches of Karres
Message-ID: <2146@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 01:09:51 EST
Article-I.D.: usceast.2146
Posted: Thu Jan 17 01:09:51 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:40:35 EST
References:  <28@unc.UUCP>
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Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia
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Summary: 

In article <28@unc.UUCP> walker@unc.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>
>The Witches of Karres was written by James Schmitz.  I enjoyed it, so I
>got some of his other books - The Telzey Toy and one other - and they were
>absolutely awful.  Really bad stuff.  I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to
>Witches of Karres, but don't waste your time on his other books.

I strongly disagree.  I think that the Telzy Amberdon stories are
some of the best character oriented sf from the period and that they
still stand up well today.  Telzy herself in a very appealing person,
and her universe quite interesting.  I always wished that Schmitz  had
written more stories in this milieu, both to see Telzy again and to
expand some on the background of life in the Hub Federation. As a
SC state legislator prepares to introduce mandatory seat belt laws
into the House, I find myself pining for an Overgovernment whose
general policy is to leave people alone so the race doesn't loose
its competitive edge.

For people wanting more Schmitz, I can suggest a few things I haven't
seen mentioned on the net yet : _A_Tale_of_Two_Clocks (a novel of the
Old Galactics and Trigger Argee  Unfortunately, there is an alternate
title for this one which I can't remember ), _Agent of Vega_ (a short
story collection), _A Pride of Monsters_ (another collection) and
"The Witches of Karres" - the novella on which the substantially different
novel was based (available in one of the SF Hall of Fame volumes).

BTW is you can find the first (only?) DAW edition of _The Lion Game_,
the Freas cover is worth the price of the book in itself (especially
if you are male).

			psigning off
			Ted Nolan	..usceast!ted
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