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Subject: James Schmitz and E.C. Tubb
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Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 12:01:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 28 12:01:34 1984
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From:  usually Rick Adrion 

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
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