Hub Universe Books In Order
- A Tale of Two Clocks (1962)
- The Universe against Her (1964)
- The Demon Breed (1968)
- The Lion Game (1973)
- The Telzey Toy (1973)
- Telzey Amberdon (1992)
- T’n’T (2000)
- Trigger and Friends (2001)
- Dangerous Territory (2001)
Novels
- Eternal Frontier (1973)
Collections
- Agent of Vega (1960)
- A Pride of Monsters (1970)
- The Best of James Schmitz (1988)
- The Winds of Time (2008)
Novellas
- Lion Loose (1961)
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A Tale of Two Clocks
Plasmoids, ancient living machines, suddenly begin moving under their own power after millennia of stillness for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them then disappeared. Trigger Argee was Tate’s closest associate and she means to find him. Trigger is brilliant, beautiful, and skilled in every known martial art. She’s worth plenty dead or alive to more than one faction in this obscure battle. And she’s beginning to have a chilling notion that the long vanished Masters of the Old Galaxy were wise when they exiled the plasmoids to the most distant and isolated world they knew…
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Telzey Amberdon
Telzey Amberdon was only in her teens when she discovered that she was a telepath. Not only a telepath, but a xenotelepath, able to communicate mentally not just with humans, but with alien intelligences. And she turned out to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the history of the galactic civilization called the Hub. First she had to deal with an alien race that humans hadn’t realized were intelligent, and who were about to eliminate those troublesome humans who thought they were colonizing an uninhabited world. Then, she had to fend off the secret psi agents of the Psychological Corps who took a dim view of any telepath, let alone one with Telzey’s powers, operating outside of their control. Next, she stumbled across a telepathic serial killer, who used an unstoppable predator, under his mental control, to hunt and kill his victims and Telzey was to be the catch of the day. It was fortunate for the human race that she survived, since she next found herself in the middle of a secret war between two hidden races of genetically engineered humans. They called it the ‘Lion Game,’ and they made the mistake of thinking that in this clash of predators, Telzey was just a harmless kitten. But when the dust settled, Telzey would be the only one purring…
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T’n’T
A powerful xenotelepath and a crack shot have separately fought crime for most of their lives, but when an evil force threatens the ‘Hub’ civilization, they team up to save the galaxy.
Eternal Frontier
Earth’s colonists have divided into the Swimmers, who spend their entire lives in zero gravity and claim to be the next step in evolution, and the planet dwelling Walkers. The Swimmers regard those who prefer to live on the surface of a planet as little better than unevolved apes, while the Walkers are not about to say farewell to the planets they grew up on, and think the Swimmers are not advanced at all, but merely deranged. Crowell, born a Swimmer but now a Walker by choice, is caught in the middle as the two sides prepare for war. Then he discovers the true cause of the altercation: a hidden alien race trying to provoke a war of extinction.
Agent of Vega
Previously appearing in separate publications, these stories of the Galaxy are now in a unitary publication. After the Galactic Empire crumbled, the Vegan Confederacy was too weak to survive, yet it prospered because of its secret weapon telepathy. Not all of the Agents of Vega were human, but all were the most powerful telepaths in the Galaxy.
The Winds of Time
James H. Schmitz was a heck of a writer, and this story ‘The Winds of Time‘ is fascinating stuff. Star ships, aliens from the future, time travel, romance, cannibalism, pet humans, and mute but brilliant aliens…
. and, of course, it’s got a hero who solves every problem by being smarter and trickier and better prepared than we’d ever imagine being. But what would you expect? This story first appeared in John W. Campbell’s Analog. Analog heroes did it with their brains. Us? We have to work.
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