Agent of Vega (Permabook, No. M-4242)

by James H. Schmitz

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000NPWPMI
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Permabook
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

The first collected version of the four early stories detailing the exploits of several members of a group of spacefaring superagents. An excellent group of stories. Agent of Vega : Agent of Vega - James H. Schmitz Agent of Vega : The Illusionists - James H. Schmitz Agent of Vega : The Truth about Cushgar - James H. Schmitz Agent of Vega : The Second Night of Summer - James H. Schmitz A new operative for an alien telepathic race uses her favored status to call in a Zone Agent to help. Space Pirate leaders and bodysnatching aliens await. Not to mention some action any Lensman would be happy to take a crack at. 3.5 out of 5 Pagadan is now a horribly cheerful and sure of herself Zone Agent, breaking in some large newbies while fighting the bad guys. 3.5 out of 5 An unexpected victory thanks to a star Zone Agent. 3.5 out of 5 Grandma has a pony. All the better to help her defeat alien invasions. 4 out of 5 4.5 out of 5

Rollicking adventure

"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!

A slight correction

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.

Brilliant collection of Novellas by famed SF author

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.