Since he was unable to get a job because of the Great Depression, he went back to Germany so that he could work with his dad’s company. In 1930, he traveled to Chicago to attend business school, and then switched to a correspondence course in journalism. The family spent the First World War in America, then returned to Germany. He was educated at a Realgymnasium in Hamburg, and he grew up speaking both German and English. He was survived by his wife, Betty Mae Chapman Schmitz.James Henry Schmitz was born Octoin Hamburg, Germany. Schmitz died of congestive lung failure in 1981 after a five week stay in the hospital in Los Angeles. Baen have also published new works based in the Karres universe. In recent years, his novels and short stories have been republished by Baen Books (which bought the rights to his estate for $6500), edited (sometimes heavily edited) and with notes by Eric Flint. Most of his works are part of the "Hub" series, though his best known novel is the non-Hub The Witches of Karres, concerning juvenile "witches" with genuine psi-powers and their escape from slavery. His first published story was Greenface, published in August 1943 in Unknown. Schmitz is best known as a writer of space opera, and for strong female characters (including Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee) that didn't fit into the damsel in distress stereotype typical of science fiction during the time he was writing.
After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a business which manufactured trailers until they broke up the business in 1949. During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Corps. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, leaving before World War II broke out in Europe in 1939. James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. We couldn't expect much mercy."īut there "is" a limit to how perfect a counterfeit can be - a limit that cannot be passed without an odd phenomenon setting in. Even if we turn ourselves in, they'll think it's sometrick, that we'd realized we'd get caught anyway. "In their eyes we'd be Kalechi's creatures.
"And be picked apart mentally and physically in the Federation's laboratories?" Halder shook his head. "Well," Halder asked, "what else can we do? You aren't suggesting that we give ourselves up -" "Won't it? How can you be sure?" Kilby asked tonelessly. Halder kept his eyes fixed on the traffic pattern ahead. "Until we hear some day that billions of human beings are dying on the Federation's worlds?" Kilby interrupted without change of expression. "Why shouldn't we continue with the plan until. There is a limit to how perfecta counterfeit can be-a limit that cannot be passed withoutan odd phenomenon setting in.
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