Agent of Vega [Hardcover]

James H Schmitz (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 191 pages
• Publisher: Gnome Press; 1st edition (1960)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0007DXEZS
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,335,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A slight correction, April 10, 2000

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John Seixas (Dallas Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Agent of Vega (Paperback)

The previous reviewer is slightly off base. This not a series of "Tansy" (Telzey?) stories. It is a separate series about a classified military/police unit set in the same universe (more or less) as the Telzey Amberdeen stories. There are four excellent stories here, each about a different agent/situation. All four are worth your time. These stories are aimed at a slightly more sophisticated audience than the "Telzey" stories. I highly recommend this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rollicking adventure, March 10, 2007

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K. Sozaeva "Obsessive bibliophile" (Athens, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agent of Vega (Paperback)

"Agent of Vega" isn't so much a single book as a series of short stories that are all loosely connected - a person mentioned in one story is featured in the next and so on. They all are about the Galactic Zone Agents of the Vegan Federation. These stories have not lost their freshness despite this book originally having been published 47 years ago. Fans of good, old-fashioned science fiction will love James Schmitz!

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant collection of Novellas by famed SF author, January 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Agent of Vega (Paperback)

James Schmitz was in his best form for these exciting Tansy stories. He accurately predicted, 40 years ago, microchip devices and communications technology - but the settings are not the usual dry hacker-filled distopia so common these days, quite the reverse. Schmitz puts his beautiful heroine in settings with weird aliens, and strange planets. A really good read.