The Universe Against Her
by James H. Schmitz
 

Review by
Robert Wilfred Franson
originally as two stories —
"Novice", Analog, June 1962
"Undercurrents", Analog, May & June 1964

Ace: New York, 1964
160 pages

Gregg Press: Boston, 1981

181 pages February 2008

  

The Universe Against Her is a sequenced collection of the first two Telzey Amberdon science fiction stories by James H. Schmitz:

  • "Novice"
  • "Undercurrents"

The novelet and novella meld into a fine introductory novel of Telzey: her extraordinary mind, latent unique talents, and fascinating galactic milieu. See the essay Demigoddess of the Mind: James H. Schmitz's heroine Telzey Amberdon.

Telzey has been fortunate in her illustrators: cover paintings for The Universe Against Her are quite different but all evocative.

These two stories also lead off the larger collection Telzey Amberdon — which unfortunately contains a slightly-abridged-by-editor version of "Undercurrents".

Please see the individual story reviews at Troynovant, or the Telzey Amberdon Series Overview.

  

© 2008 Robert Wilfred Franson

  

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