root%nsf-cs%CSNet-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP (01/28/84)
From: usually Rick Adrion <root%nsf-cs@CSNet-Relay> James Schmitz may have died, but if so it was after 1979 (he's listed as still living in my first editions catalog from 1979). By the way, why is nobody (at least of the SF-LOVERS crowd) seem to be reading good old fashioned cut-em-up space opera such as that in Tubb's Dumerest series (volume 29 just out). I find that Tubb is by far my favorite author of that genre. Besides, he was, I believe, responsible for the pilot for that great TV show - Space 1999. More seriously, the universe that he created for the Dumerest series is fascinating consisting of good (the Church of the Universal Brotherhood), Evil (the Cyclan), and an everchanging cast of characters that lie in the middle. I got hooked on the series through my collection efforts in completing my ACE doubles. The novels are currently being published by DAW and reprinted, I believe, by ACE. Dumerest is the hero of the series and is a man in search of his home - lost Earth. He stowed away on a space freighter as a youth and got lost in the multitude of human settlements in the center of the galaxy. Humankind has forgotten that it originated on one world and earth is only a legend now. Dumerest is being chased by the Cyclan, a group of pure intellects bent on taking over the galaxy, because he has the secret to a drug that will allow an intellect to dwell in the body of another. And so forth ... As I said, I recommend the series. John Cherniavsky jcc.nsf@csnet-relay
kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) (02/08/84)
* Does anybody out there >know< if James Schmitz is still alive? If he is, I humbly apologize to all who read my article to the effect that I beleived him dead; I apologize even more humbly to Mr. Schmitz! I certainly >hope< that he's not dead, as I greatly appreciate his writing. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll