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Upgrades

Upgrades are available from the start of the game. They can be purchased and upgraded with Resources.

The following is a list of upgrades, from earliest to last avaliable:

## Cursors

Create a cursor that will automatically presses the button every 2 seconds. Each Cursor upgrade bought increases amount of cursors that press the button and the click power per cursor. After every 5 levels bought you will lose a few cursors in exchange for an increased click power. **Base cost:** 1/5 of the first resource bar. **Base click:** 1 click ( you can increase it further with **Upgrades**).

## Goblins

Summon goblins who run back and forth the screen and jump on the button. They periodically take breaks to rejuvenate their stamina. **Base cost:** 1/2 of the second resource bar. **Base stamina:** 10 sec **Base recovery:** 1/sec **Base speed:** 3/sec **Base stomping power:** 9 presses.

## Hermit

*For Spells see Gaflando's Spells.*
An old friend offers to cast spells for you if you give him a green diamond thing. **Base cost:** 1/10 of fourth resource bar. **Base mana regen:** 3/s.

## Skilled Goblins

Teaching your goblins some skills will really help them press that button! Each skilled goblins upgrade bought increases amount of Skill Points earned per goblin level up. **Base cost:** 3/10 of third resource bar. **Base skillpoint per level:** 1.

## Spellbook

This ancient spellbook will help Gaflando improve his spell casting. Just like the skilled goblins upgrade but instead increases Skill Points earned per hermit level up. **Base cost:** 1/5 of fourth resource bar. **Base skillpoint per level:** 1.

## Time Crystals

Harvest time crystals that allow you to manipulate the flow of time. After gathering 360 time crystals you can time warp an hour. **Base cost:** 2/5 of fourth resource bar. **Base crystal/sec:** 1 crystal per 100 seconds.

## Task Master

The goblin taskmaster gathers Gobcoins every time the button is pressed. **Base cost:** 3/5 of fourth resource bar. **Base gobcoin chance:** 10%. **Base gobcoin amount:** 1.

## Landscape

Add some ground for your goblins to run on that'll make them faster(adds +1 to their speed for the Landscape bought). After a few levels it also adds the day/night feature. Also reduces goblin exp requirements. **Base cost:**  3/10 of fifth resource bar. **Base scaling reduction** 3% per goblin star. Stars are earned at powers of 2 in levels. ( 2, 4, 8, 16,...)

## Mystic Statues

Allows you to obtain mystic statues to complete various objectives. Similar to the Landscape. Each statue reduces Hermit EXP requirement for leveling. **Base cost:** 3/10 of fifth resource bar. **Base scaling reduction:** 3% per hermit star. Stars are earned at levels 2,4,8,16,32,etc.
Queen Grove

The **Queen Grove** is the heart of the Diamondwood forests of Wrake.  All Diamondwood originated there, and it is the home of the central intelligence of the forests. The Queen Trees of the Grove are "twice as thick and almost twice as tall as the trees of other groves." The largest version of each Diamondwood creature lives there, from Sam the mossback to the Grandfather Slurp.

The Queen Grove is located on the farm owned by cousins Auris Luteel and Ilf Cholm.

## In the works

The Queen Grove appears in the following work:

* "Balanced Ecology"
Vector

**Vector** is one of the playable champions in Champion Dimensions.

## Background

The Myriad is a destructive force in the realm of Teoriya that fight the righteous Guardians. It's champion Vector, leads them into many battles and is victorious in every one of them. His name brings fear into the hearts of mortals.

## Abilities

### **Passive: Defensive Stance/Power Stance**

* You are able to switch between your Defensive Stance and Power Stance.
	+ In Defensive Stance you gain 35% damage reduction but lower damage.
	+ In Power Stance you gain 25% more damage.

### **Ability 1: Cleave**

* Deal a devastating strike to the enemy near you, slowing them for 1s.
* **Cooldown:** 2s

### **Ability 2: Myriad Chains**

* Send out 1 out of 2 chains out of your Myriad Shield which damage and slow enemies for the duration of 2s.
* **Cooldown:** 4s

### **Ultimate: Offensive**

* Channel the strenght of your power stone and unleash 3 devastating attacks. If an enemy is hit by all 3 attacks they are stunned for 1s.
* **Cooldown:** 100s

## Gallery

Bruna • Dusty • Mirage
**Defender**

Olnea • Zelgius
**Specialist**

Harrison • Percy • Soran • Tess
**Tank**

Edon • Heidi • Lady Crimson • **Vector**
**Support**

Artis • Pheror
**Utility**
Hogan Masters

**Hogan Masters** is the owner and manager of the Masters Fishing Camp. Though described as a "normally sober young man," ("Greenface") he could overindulge in iced beer during a hot day on the lake.

He was engaged to Julia Allison for half a year before his obsession with Greenface drove them apart. They had been waiting to marry until the fishing camp was a solid success, something that had been imminent at the beginning of the summer.

## In the works

Hogan appears in the following work:

* "Greenface"
The Universe Against Her

***The Universe Against Her*** is a collected version of the first two Telzey Amberdon stories. It was originally published by Ace in 1964, then re-issued by Gregg Press in 1981.

## Blurb

"Within a few hundred yards, it became apparent that she had an escort. She didn't look around for them, but spread out to right and left like a skirmish line, keeping abreast with her, occasional shadows slid silently through patches of open, sunlit ground, disappeared again under the trees.

"Wisps of thought which were not her own thoughts flicked through Telzey's mind from moment to moment as the silent line of shadows moved deeper into the park with her. She realized she was being sized up, judged, evaluated again... This was the first human mind they'd been able to make heads or tails of, and that hadn't seemed deaf and silent to their form of communication. They were taking time out to study it... They were curious and they liked games. At the moment, Telzey and what she might try to do to change their plans was the game on which their attention was fixed....

"But what is a game to the telepathic Crest Cats is deadly earnest to the human race -- and Telzey Amberdon must walk the perilous line between alien intelligence and human government if she doesn't want to find herself abandoned by them both."

--Book blurb, Ace, 1964

## Contents

* Novice
* Undercurrents

## Online text

The collection is available online at:

* Internet Archive

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* Ace Books, 1964
* Gregg Press, 1981
The Searcher

The novella **The Searcher** was originally published in February 1966.

## Blurb

"The Searcher wasn't exactly smart, or intelligent -- but it had immense potentialities. And unbreakable determination to gain what it sought--"

-- *Analog*, Feb 1966

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Feb 1966
* *A Pride of Monsters*, 1970
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*, 2001
* *In Space No One Can Hear You Scream*, edited by Hank Davis, 2013
The Best of James H. Schmitz

***The Best of James H. Schmitz*** is a collection of Schmitz stories published by NESFA Press in 1991.

## Contents

* Mischief in the Spaceways by Janet Kagan
* Grandpa
* Lion Loose
* Just Curious
* The Second Night of Summer
* Novice
* Balanced Ecology
* The Custodians
* Sour Note on Palayata
* Goblin Night
* Bibliography

## Awards

* Nomination (Polled 5), Locus Award (Best collection), 1992

## Reviews

* "A Universe of Possibilities: *The Best of James H. Schmitz*" by Alan Brown

## Publication history

For a detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
Swift Completion

The short story **Swift Completion** was originally published in March 1962.

## Blurb

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. What couriers? Read on, and you will know."

-- *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*, Mar 1962

## Online text

The story is available online at:

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*, Mar 1962
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Masters Fishing Camp

**Masters Fishing Camp** is located along the shore on Thursday Lake, assumed to be in the northern United States. The camp is owned and operated by Hogan Masters, and is moderately successful until Greenface begins stalking the area.

The camp consists of a two-story log lodge, several small log cabins, an icehouse and a dock.

## In the works

The Masters Fishing Camp appears in the following work:

* "Greenface"
Trigger & Friends

***Trigger & Friends*** is a collection edited by Eric Flint. It was published in mass market paperback by Baen Books in 2001, as part of a larger project to resurrect the work of several classic science fiction writers.

## Contents

* Harvest Time
* Lion Loose
* Aura of Immortality
* Forget It
* Legacy
* Sour Note on Palayata
* Afterword
* The Psychology Service: Immune System of the Hub

 Online text

The collection is available online at:

* Freedoors

## Awards

* Nomination (Polled 11), Locus Award (Best collection), 2002

## Publication history

For a detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
The End of the Line

The novelette **The End of the Line** was originally published in July 1951.

## Blurb

"A well-integrated civilization gets to be hard to retire from. Civilizations get that way -- because the threat of trouble always comes from the other side of the frontier. But the frontier isn't necessarily geographical!"

-- *Astounding Science Fiction*, Jul 1951

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Awards

* Preliminary nominee, Prometheus Award (Prometheus Hall of Fame), 2017

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Astounding Science Fiction*, Jul 1951
* *Space Pioneers*, edited by Andre Norton, 1954
* *To the Stars*, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1971
* *Tomorrow I*, edited by Robert Hoskins, 1971
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001
James H. Schmitz

James Henry Schmitz was born October 15, 1911 to American parents in Hamburg, Germany. The family moved back to the U.S. at the outset of World War I, but returned to Germany after the war was over. Schmitz grew up bilingual, attending German schools. He returned to the U.S. in 1930 to attend business school in Chicago. He soon switched to journalism.

Unable to find a job in the U.S. at the height of the Great Depression, Schmitz moved back to Germany and took a position he deplored with International Harvester, the same company that employed his father. The family again left Germany in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II. Schmitz enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he served as aerial photographer in the Pacific. After the war he went into business with his brother-in-law, manufacturing trailers.  That ended in 1949.

Schmitz was a master of short fiction, who is probably best remembered as one of the first science fiction writers to break away from the "damsel in distress" trope. Instead, he created strong female protagonists who are just as enjoyable to read today, as when he first penned them. His people were more realistic than what was common in other work of the period, with odd quirks and surprising characteristics.

Schmitz lived most of his later life in Los Angeles, California with his wife Betty Mae Chapman Schmitz. In April 1981 he was admitted to a Los Angeles area hospital, where he died of congestive lung failure a few days later on April 18.
A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub

**A Nice Day For Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub** is a collection of Schmitz stories published by Chilton in 1965.

## Contents

* A Nice Day for Screaming
* The Winds of Time
* The Other Likeness
* The Tangled Web
* The Machmen
* Balanced Ecology

## Publication history

For a detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
The Winds of Time (story)

The novelette **The Winds of Time** was originally published in September 1962.

## Blurb

"He contracted for a charter trip -- but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out -- and he wanted more than service!"

-- *Analog*, Sep 1962

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)
* Internet Archive (original text)
* ManyBooks (original text)
* Project Gutenberg (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Sep 1962
* *A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub*, 1965
* *A Pride of Monsters*, 1970
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*, 2001
* *The Winds of Time and Other Stories*, 2008
* *Startling Stories*, Winter 2010
* *The Time Travel Megapack*, edited by John Gregory Betancourt, 2013
Resident Witch

The novelette **Resident Witch** was originally published in May 1970.

## Blurb

"Kyth Interstellar, a detective agency, had a problem that not even their highly skilled operatives could handle -- without Telzey, their Resident Witch!"

-- *Analog*, May 1970

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, May 1970
* *This Side of Infinity*, edited by Terry Carr, 1972
* *The Telzey Toy*, 1973
* *The Telzey Toy and Other Stories*, 1984
* *T'nT: Telzey & Trigger*, 2000
3ft Werewolf

The 3ft Werewolf is an animated Halloween decoration made in 2017 and 2018. It is a 36" tall werewolf with brown fur, a gray coat, plaid undershirt and black pants. When activated, the werewolf viciously howls as his mouth moves, his eyes glow red and his arms move up and down.

## Where it Was Sold

This item was sold at Home Depot in 2017 and 2018.
Vega universe

The stories of the Vega universe involve special agents of the Confederacy of Vega.

## Stories

Four stories are part of the Vega universe.

* Agent of Vega
* The Truth About Cushgar
* The Second Night of Summer
* The Illusionists

These have been collected into anthologies:

* *Agent of Vega*
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*
Novice

Title page, Analog, Jun 1962

The novelette **Novice** was originally published in June 1962.

## Blurb

"A novice is one who is inexperienced -- but that doesn't mean incompetent. Nor does it mean stupid!"

-- *Analog*, Jun 1962

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)
* Internet Archive (original text)
* Internet Archive (original text)
* ManyBooks (original text)
* Project Gutenberg (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Jun 1962
* *Analog 2*, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr., 1964
* *Analog Anthology*, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr., 1965
* *Tomorrow's Children*, edited by Isaac Asimov, 1966
* *Mind to Mind*, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1971
* *Analog's Children of the Future*, edited by Stanley Schmidt, 1982
* *Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories*, edited by Roger Caras, 1987
* *The Best of James H. Schmitz*, 1991
* *Telzey Amberdon*, 2000
* *Anthropomorphic Aliens: An Interstellar Anthology*, edited by Fred Patten, 2014
Where the Time Went

The short story **Where the Time Went** was originally published in November 1968.

## Blurb

"No wonder Belk had troubles. His time particles were not synchronal!"

-- *If*, Nov 1968

## Synopsis

A writer at the end of his rope gets help with the mysterious disappearance of his time.

## Characters

* John D. Carew
* George Belk
* Dr. William W. Gordon

## Locations

* John D. Carew Literary Agency, New York City

## Terminology

* Drainometer
* Time drainage

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Internet Archive (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *If*, Nov 1968
* *Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes*, edited by Roger Elwood and Vic Ghidalia, 1973
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Greenface (character)

## Greenface

Original publication illustration

**Greenface** was a member of an unknown tropical species. It hitched a ride in a crate of bananas, ending up at the Masters Fishing Camp along the shore of Thursday Lake. With no natural predators in the area, the tiny creature hunted the lakeside, growing bigger with each kill. Eventually, it began hunting the human residents.

Greenface, grown to the size of a house, was destroyed by Hogan Masters in a life-or-death struggle. Had the final confrontation not come, winter would have killed Greenface eventually. It was already dying from the cold when it went after Hogan.

Greenface is described in his first appearance as:

> "...a shiny, dark-green lump, the size and shape of a goose egg standing on end among the weeds; it was pulsing regularly like a human heart; and across it ran a network of thin, dark lines that seemed to form two tightly shut eyes and a closed, faintly smiling mouth."
>
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## In the works

Greenface appears in the following work:

* "Greenface"
Attitudes

The novelette **Attitudes** was originally published in February 1969.

## Blurb

"James H. Schmitz's new story takes place on a giant ship with the most precious cargo imaginable: huge storerooms of artificial bodies along with containers holding half a billion personalities, identities, selves; in short, the makings of an entire intelligent species."

-- *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*, Feb 1969

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*, Feb 1969
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*, 2001

## Translations

French:

* *Question d'attitude*, translated by Bruno Martin, OPTA, 1970
Balanced Ecology

The short story **Balanced Ecology** was originally published in March 1965.

## Blurb

"It's sometimes hard to define the term "pet" -- and to decide which is whose pet. Let's just say "symbiote" and let it go..."

-- *Analog*, Mar 1965

## Synopsis

When shady businessmen try to take control of a diamondwood forest, the forest fights back in surprising ways.

## Characters

* Ilf Cholm
* Auris Luteel
* Sam
* Riquol Cholm
* Meldy Cholm
* Lying Lou
* Gabby
* Kugus Ovin
* Terokaw
* Bliman
* Het

## Locations

* Wrake
* Queen Grove

## Terminology

* Diamondwood
* Slurp
* Humbug
* Mossback

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Awards

* Nomination, Nebula Award (Short story), 1966

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Mar 1965
* *A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub*, 1965
* *Nebula Award Stories 1965*, edited by Damon Knight, 1966
* *Analog 5*, edited by John W. Campbell, 1967
* *Countercommandment and Other Stories*, edited by John W. Campbell, 1970
* *Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology*, edited by Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover, 1972
* *Bug-Eyed Monsters*, edited by Anthony Cheetham, 1972
* *Out of This World 9*, edited by Michael Pearson, Amabel Williams-Ellis, 1972
* *Nature's Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race*, edited by Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis, 1978
* *Analog: The Best of Science Fiction*, 1985
* *The Best of James H. Schmitz*, 1991
* *The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990*, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*, 2001

## Translations

German:

* *Ausgeglichene Ökologie*, translated by Hans Maeter, Lichtenberg, 1970
* *Ausgeglichene Ökologie*, translated by Hans Maeter, Lentz, 1980
* *Ausgeglichene Ökologie*, translated by Hans Maeter, Heyne, 1983

Dutch:

* *Ecologisch Evenwicht*, translated by Warner Flamen, Meulenhoff, 1973

French:

* *Écologie compensée*, translated by Jacques Polanis, OPTA, 1973
* *Ecologie intégrée*, translated by Bruno Martin, Le Livre de Poche, 1983

Japanese:

* Anteishita Seitaikei, translated by Nakamura Tooru, Hayakawa Shobo, 1992
Kuat Drive Yards

Ubrikkian Industries

Kuat Leisure

Kuat Vehicles

Chempat Engineered Defenses

Allanteen Six Shipyards

Kuat Freight Port

Belderone

Xa Fel

Jaemus

Gyndine

Karavis

Balmorra

### Major products:

Military-grade starships and ground vehicles, as well as civilian leisure craft, transports, shuttles, and planetary defense weaponry

Kuat Drive Yards serves as one of the most well-renowed starship manufacturers in the galaxy, known for creating massive battlecruisers that dwarf any other ships in the galaxy, only to be kept in-system in Kuat's massive defense fleet.

Founded by The Ten, the wealthiest ten artistocratic families, Kuat Drive Yards enjoys a large amount of subsidiary companies as well as facilities on other worlds that supplement its large orbital shipyards.

It is currently lead by the Principal Director Magus Kuat.

## Leadership

All Principal Directors of Kuat Drive Yards are from the Kuat family line, while the rest of the Directorate is made up of representatives from each of the other nine families, enabling their interests to be ostensibly balanced, though Kuat always holds a slight advantage thanks to its seniority and power. The directorate makes all executive decisions: approving new ship designs, creating or absorbing subsidiaries, and moving in new directions with the company.

The directorate also serves as a large deciding factor in the political positions of Kuati – Senators, representatives, and governors are chosen by a vote within the familieis as to which candidate would advocate best for the company as well as the planet, and the candidates are almost always chosen from one of the families (although Kuat descendents rarely run for Senator, preferring to take a corporate position instead). The decisions made by Senators are almost always influenced by the advice of the directorate families, which does not always coincide with the interests of the planet itself.

## Products

Since it has been thousands of years since the last major war, Kuat production has slowed very much, but it still produces a large amount of ships in many varieties.

### Ship classes

#### Military

*Mandator*-class Star Dreadnaught (discontinued for the foreseeable future)

*Procurator*-class battlecruiser (discontinued for the foreseeable future)

*Excidium*-class cruiser

*Munifex-*class light cruiser

*Law*-class system patrol craft

CloakShape starfighter

#### Civilian

*Space Master* medium transport

*Super Transport VI* cargo vessel
The Star Hyacinths

The novelette **The Star Hyacinths** was originally published in December 1961. It was also published under the title *The Tangled Web*.

## Blurb

"On a bleak, distant unchartered world two ships lay wrecked, and a lone man stared at a star hyacinth. Its brilliance burned into his retina... and he knew that men could easily kill and kill for that one beauty alone."

-- *Amazing Stories*, Dec 1961

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen Free Library via Internet Archive (original text)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)
* Internet Archive (original text)
* ManyBooks (original text)
* Project Gutenberg (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database for both *The Tangled Web* and *The Star Hyacinths*.

* *Amazing Stories*, Dec 1961
* *A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub*, 1965
* *Telzey Amberdon*, 2000
* *Original Edition of Edited Schmitz Stories*, 2005
Hub universe

The Hub universe encompasses the majority of Schmitz's series work. Two of his more popular characters, Trigger Argee and Telzey Amberdon live in the Hub, and most of his Hub stories involve one or the other (and sometimes both). Two of Schmitz's rare novels are also set in the Hub, *Legacy* and *The Demon Breed*.

## Stories

When Baen Books re-published Schmitz's work as part of a larger project to resurrect the work of classic science fiction authors, the Hub stories (including both novels) were collected into a four volume series entitled *The Complete Federation of the Hub*:

* *Telzey Amberdon*
* *T'nT: Telzey & Trigger*
* *Trigger & Friends*
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*
The Illusionists

The novella *Space Fear* was originally published in March 1951. It was re-titled **The Illusionists** when it was published as part of *Agent of Vega* in 1960.

## Blurb

"Of all the weapons man can use against man, none is so powerful, so binding and paralyzing, as Fear. And in an interstellar culture, dictators who rule by fear have special problems..."

-- *Astounding Science Fiction*, Mar 1951

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database for both *Space Fear* and *The Illusionists*.

* *Astounding Science Fiction*, Mar 1951
* *Agent of Vega* (collection), 1960
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001
Company Planet

The novelette **Company Planet** was originally published in May 1971.

## Blurb

"Telzey was generally competent enough to take care of herself -- and her enemies for that matter! But this time she was up against a very stacked deck indeed!"

-- *Analog*, May 1971

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, May 1971
* *The Telzey Toy*, 1973
* *The Telzey Toy and Other Stories*, 1984
* *T'nT: Telzey & Trigger*, 2000
Goblin Night

The novelette **Goblin Night** was originally published in April 1965.

## Blurb

"One of the most interesting points Schmitz makes in this one is, I think, that Nature can produce killers -- but it takes Man to produce the ultra-super in the way of killers!"

-- *Analog*, Apr 1965

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Award

* Nomination, Nebula Award (Novelette), 1966

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Apr 1965
* *On Our Way to the Future*, edited by Terry Carr, 1970
* *The Best of James H. Schmitz*, 1991
* *Telzey Amberdon*, 2000
* *The World Turned Upside Down*, edited by Eric Flint, Jim Baen, and David Drake, 2005
The Beacon to Elsewhere

The novella **The Beacon to Elsewhere** was originally published in April 1963.

## Blurb

"The forces of the Universe met at Lion Mesa. They were represented by the rebel Terrans; by Dowland of the Interstellar Police; and by the monstrous shapes from an alien galaxy. They all sought the same thing: the time-wrenching power of... **The Beacon to Elsewhere"**

-- *Amazing Stories*, Apr 1963

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Amazing Stories*, Apr 1963
* *The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told No. 12*, Spring 1969
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001
A Pride of Monsters

***A Pride of Monsters*** is a collection of Schmitz stories. It was published in 1970.

## Blurb

"The Future reveals a host of unearthly creatures in five super-suspenseful stories by James H. Schmitz. *A Pride of Monsters* is pure science fiction: stark horror couched in repulsive shapes of the unknown; shadowy, unspoken fears and terrifying nightmares suddenly assuming the inescapable immediacy of physical form. The author depicts men and women desperately pitting native intelligence against these wildly freakish forces, as the fate of the human race hangs in the balance.

"Four of the episodes take place outside earthly confines. In *The Searcher*, Danestar Gems, a sleuthing beauty with tremendous technological skill, finds herself confronted by a lethal mass of fiery, radioactive energy from outer-space. And *The Winds of Time* introduces the janandra, a malevolent, frighteningly intelligent monster who owns its ostensible master, and terrorizes a chartered spaceship. *The Pork Chop Tree* features a strange new form of plant life that loves its victims to a spiritual death.

"All the characters in these stories are exposed to essentially the same dilemma: confrontation with a formidable unknown. In each case, the problem for man is still what it was when he faced terror with no more than a club. The paralyzing emotions of fear, dread, and revulsion must be overcome by human ingenuity and the instinctive urge to stay alive. Human is pitted against superhuman in five fascinating encounters. The suspense is -- literally -- killing."

-- Side cover notes, Macmillan, 1970

## Contents

* Introduction
* The Searcher
* Greenface
* The Pork Chop Tree
* The Winds of Time
* Lion Loose

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* Macmillan, 1970
* Collier Books, 1973
Agent of Vega and Other Stories

**Agent of Vega and Other Stories** is a collection edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon. It was published in mass market paperback by Baen Books in 2001, as part of a larger project to resurrect the work of several classic science fiction writers.

## Contents

* Foreword: "That was an epiphany..." by Mercedes Lackey

### The Confederacy of Vega

* Agent of Vega
* The Illusionists
* The Second Night of Summer
* The Truth About Cushgar

#### Other stories

* The Custodians
* Gone Fishing
* The Beacon to Elsewhere
* The End of the Line
* Watch the Sky
* Greenface
* Rogue Psi

## Online text

The collection is available online at:

* Freedoors
We Don't Want Any Trouble

The short story **We Don't Want Any Trouble** was originally published in June 1953.

## Blurb

"What chance can you possibly have of whipping an enemy who insists on joining your side?"

-- *Galaxy Science Fiction*, Jun 1953

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Internet Archive (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Galaxy Science Fiction*, Jun 1953
* *Assignment in Tomorrow,* edited by Frederik Pohl, 1954
* *Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales*, edited by Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin, 1963
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
* *Things from Outer Space*, edited by Hank Davis, 2016
Captives of the Thieve-Star

The novelette **Captives of the Thieve-Star** was originally published in May 1951.

## Blurb

"Space-nomads, gypsies of the Interstellar Void, Peer and Channok took what the star-tides tossed up-- but when they grappled the derelict Ra-Twelve, dreaming of salvagers' gold, they hooked a death-prize... a doom-ship, haunted by the Yomm, pursued by the Mysterious Nine!"

-- *Planet Stories*, May 1951

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Planet Stories*, May 1951
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
* *The 10th Science Fiction Megapack*, 2015
Greenface (story)

The novelette **Greenface** was James H. Schmitz's first published work, appearing in August 1943.

## Blurb

"The first one to see Greenface put it down to heat and beer -- a little green horror distilled from a combination of too much of each. Greenface was seen later by others -- and presently he was reported as a green horror, but not a little one. Finally, Greenface was a great, green menace--"

-- Table of Contents blurb, *Unknown Worlds, Aug 1943*

## Synopsis

A tropical creature terrorizes a fishing camp, growing ever larger, until it is ready to take on the owner of the camp in a fight to the death.

## Characters

* Freddie
* Hogan Masters
* Greenface
* Julia Allison
* Whitey Allison
* Pete Jeffries
* Old Battler

## Locations

* Masters Fishing Camp
* Thursday Lake

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Unknown Worlds*, Aug 1943
* *The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories*, edited by Ray Bradbury, 1956
* *A Pride of Monsters*, 1970
* *Things Hunting Men*, edited by David Drake, 1988
* *Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond*, edited by Stanley Schmidt, 1988
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001
* *The Baen Big Book of Monsters*, edited by Hank Davis, 2014
Lying Lou

**Lying Lou** is a humbug on the planet Wrake. Along with his companion Gabby, he often spies for Auris Luteel, eavesdropping and then repeating back what he has heard at high speed to save time.

When Terokaw tried to take over the farm, Lying Lou and Gabby imitated Auris and Ilf, leading their pursuers astray to protect the children. Lou also served as Auris' primary spy that day, so that she was somewhat forewarned to the hostile takeover attempt.

## In the works

Lying Lou appears in the following work:

* "Balanced Ecology"
Clean Slate

The novelette **Clean Slate** was originally published in September 1964.

## Blurb

"If you wipe off a cluttered blackboard, there is lots of room to imprint new information. Can a human brain be treated the same way? Can you make a superman if you start with a..."

-- *Great Science Fiction*, Fall 1968

## Online text

The story is available online at:

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Amazing Stories*, Sep 1964
* *Great Science Fiction*, Fall 1968
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Ilf Cholm

**Ilf Cholm** grew up in a Diamondwood forest on the planet Wrake, where he was raised by his grandparents, Riquol and Meldy Cholm. Ilf owns one-tenth of the forest and factory, his cousin Auris Luteel owns the other nine-tenths.

At the time his uncle Kugus brought ruthless, off-world businessmen to the farm, Ilf had just turned eleven. He was described as "rather small for his age," and "wiry, with tight-curled red hair." He enjoyed fencing with the slurps on the family farm. Ilf was frequently fooled by the mimicry of the farm's humbugs, which has lead to his intense dislike of the creatures.

## In the works

Ilf appears in the following work:

* "Balanced Ecology"
Crime Buff

The short story **Crime Buff** was originally published in August 1973.

## Blurb

"If given a choice, one might find 'facile dissimulation' more exhilarating and (to his shame) frequently more propitious than veracity."

-- *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*, Aug 1973

## Online text

The story is available online at:

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*, Aug 1973
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Original Edition of Edited Schmitz Stories

The ***Original Edition of Edited Schmitz Stories*** is a collection of the original text of the stories most heavily edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon as part of the Baen Books project to resurrect the work of several classic science fiction writers. More detail on what was altered, and by how much, is given in the preface.

The collection was published by Baen as an ebook in 2005.

## Contents

* Preface
* Undercurrents
* Poltergeist
* The Star Hyacinths
* Legacy
* Planet of Forgetting

## Online text

Though no longer available in the Baen Free Library, the complete text still resides in an earlier version of the site preserved at the Internet Archive.

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* Baen Free Library, 2005
* Baen.com, 2006
T'nT: Telzey & Trigger

***T'nT: Telzey & Trigger*** is a collection edited by Eric Flint. It was published in mass market paperback by Baen Books in 2000, as part of a larger project to resurrect the work of several classic science fiction writers.

## Contents

* Company Planet
* Resident Witch
* Compulsion prologue: The Pork Chop Tree
* Compulsion
* Glory Day
* Child of the Gods
* Ti's Toys
* The Symbiotes
* Afterword
* That Certain Something

## Online text

The collection is available online at:

* Freedoors
* Internet Archive

## Publication history

For a detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
The Custodians

The novelette **The Custodians** was originally published in December 1968.

## Blurb

"The surgically altered alien looked passably human -- his terrible danger was neatly camouflaged. He was not, however, alone in being a deadly, camouflaged warrior..."

-- *Analog*, Dec 1968

## Online text

The story is available online at:

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Dec 1968
* *The Best of James H. Schmitz*, 1991
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001
Grandpa

The novelette **Grandpa** was originally published in February 1955.

## Blurb

"The really appropriate epitaph for many and many a man is "Why, it's obvious..."  Like it was obvious that Grandpa was just a vast, stupid vegetable, and no more..."

-- *Astounding Science Fiction*, Feb 1955

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Astounding Science Fiction*, Feb 1955
* *Penguin Science Fiction*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss, 1961
* *Spectrum V*, edited by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest, 1966
* *Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction*, edited by Arthur C. Clarke, 1966
* *The Science Fiction Bestiary*, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1971
* *A Science Fiction Reader*, edited by Harry Harrison and Carol Pugner, 1973
* *The Astounding-Analog Reader*, Volume 2, edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, 1973
* *The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss, 1973
* *Decade: The 1950s*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison, 1976
* *Fontein Science Fiction*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss, 1976
* *The Infinite Web: Eight Stories of Science Fiction*, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1977
* *The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction*, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg, 1980
* *Fantasy*, edited by Alyn Shipton, 1982
* *Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction*, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, 1983
* *Invariant*, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, 1985
* *Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century*, edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, 1987
* *The Great SF Stories #17 (1955)*, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, 1988
* *Cosmic Critiques: How & Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work*, edited by Ansen Dibell, Martin H. Greenberg, and Isaac Asimov, 1990
* *The Best of James H. Schmitz*, 1991
* *Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons*, edited by Gardner Dozois, 2000
* *The Hub: Dangerous Territory*, 2001
* *A Science Fiction Omnibus*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss, 2007
* *The Folio Science Fiction Anthology*, edited by Brian W. Aldiss, 2016
* *The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collectio*n, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, 2016
The Lion Game (story)

The novella **The Lion Game** was originally published in serial form in August and September 1971.

## Blurbs

First of Two Parts.

"Telzey intended to be bait to mousetrap some mysterious troublemakers-- but the game turned out not to be mice!"

-- *Analog*, Aug 1971

Conclusion.

"There are times when not even a telepath can be sure who she could trust -- and Telzey was trapped in a maze of high-power professional double-dealers. Fortunately, Telzey was a first-class liar herself..."

-- *Analog*, Sep 1971

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Aug and Sep 1971
* *The Lion Game*, 1973
* *Telzey Amberdon*, 2000
Slurp

A **slurp** is a native creature of the Diamondwood forests on Wrake. It looks like a tree stump, a disguise it uses to hide from its prey. Slurps have a long, yellow tongue, the tip of which waves in the air when the slurp is hunting.  An average-sized slurp has a range of twelve to fourteen feet, and will eat nearly anything that crosses its path that is small enough to handle. This is frequently Wrake tumbleweeds, though slurps will not eat humans.

As a boy, Ilf Cholm enjoyed fencing with the slurps on the family farm. He would tap them with a stick until they became annoyed enough to try knocking the stick from his hand with their tongues.

## In the works

Slurps appear in the following work:

* "Balanced Ecology"
3ft Butler

The 3ft Butler is an animated Halloween prop made in 2016. It

   featured a three foot tall butler with a red vest, black suit and white hair and eyebrows. When activated, the butler moves his head and arms in a motionette like fashion while speaking a phrase. This item was sold at the Home Depot in 2016.

## Details

* 36" (3') tall
* LED Eyes
* Moves head, arms in a circular motion
* Sold exclusively at Home Depot in 2016

## Trivia

* This is one of PAC's few 3ft butlers that does not carry a serving dish.
* It uses the same generic butler phrases as the original Bobblehead Butler.
3ft Victorian Reaper

The 3ft Victorian Reaper is a halloween animatronic made in 2020. It is a three foot tall figure with a skeletal crow mask

   on much of its head, wearing a feathered top hat, a cloak and cape, very similar to the appearance of 1600s era Plague Doctors. When activated, the figure's arms move and eyes light up while speaking. The item was sold at Home Depot in 2020 for $39.99.

## *Home Depot's*Description

"The reaper is in but seeing this reaper may make you feel unwell. His sinister looking appearance will cause an unsettling feeling. Do you dare to see what's under the mask?"

* Black hat and cloak with bone finish bird-style mask
* Figure measures 3 ft. Tall and is for indoor use only
* Animated moving hands and red LED eyes
* Battery operated and sound sensor activated

## Trivia

* Despite being called a 'Victorian Reaper', the prop more closely resembles the traditional appearance of a *Plague Doctor,*which was a special type of doctor that people employed during the 1600s Bubonic Plague pandemic. The reaper wears a similar crow like mask and hat to the plague doctors, and the cloak also fits in with how plague doctors traditionally dressed.
* The song it uses is "All Hallows Eve Ritual" by Darren Curtis
Oneness

The short story **Oneness** was originally published in May 1963.

## Blurb

"At that, you know the power to enforce the Golden Rule would make a terrible weapon!"

-- *Analog*, May 1963

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Internet Archive (original text)
* ManyBooks (original text)
* Project Gutenberg (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, May 1963
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Agent of Vega (story)

Illustration by Quackenbush, Astounding, July 1949

## Blurb

"A new author points out that, in an inhabited galaxy, trouble can grow to enormous size before any organization beco

mes aware that the danger's a-brewing!"

-- *Astounding Science Fiction*, Jul 1949

## Characters

* Iliff
* Third Coordinator
* U-1
* Tahmey

## Locations

* Gull
* Lycanno

## Terminology

* Confederacy of Vega
* Lannai
* Department of Galactic Zones
* Department of Cultures
* Traditionalists

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Baen.com (edited by Eric Flint)
* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Astounding Science Fiction*, July 1949
* *Space Police*, edited by Andre Norton, 1956
* *Agent of Vega*, 1960
* *Agent of Vega and Other Stories*, 2001

## Translations

French:

* *Agent de Véga*, translated by Bruno Martin, OPTA, 1970

German:

* *Agent der Wega*, translated by Dolf Strasser, Ullstein, 1977
Whitey Allison

**Whitey Allison** is the father of Julia Allison and the owner of the local bar and liquor store strategically located by the town bus stop.

He was hinting that he would pay to have the lodge at the fishing camp rebuilt as a wedding present for Julia and her fiancee, Hogan Masters. The couple was engaged for half a year before Hogan's obsession with Greenface drove them apart. Whitey believed Hogan had become a crazy drunk, and began steering customers away from the fishing camp after Hogan and Julia split up.

## In the works

Whitey appears in the following work:

* "Greenface"
Glory Day

The novelette **Glory Day** was originally published in June 1971.

## Blurb

"Telzey was in a spot. But she wasn't the type to howl about that. She got someone else to do it for her."

-- *Analog*, Jun 1971

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Freedoors (edited by Eric Flint)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Analog*, Jun 1971
* *T'nT: Telzey & Trigger*, 2000
Agent of Vega (collection)

***Agent of Vega*** was the first volume to compile all of Schmitz's Confederacy of Vega stories. It was originally published in 1960.

## Contents

* Agent of Vega
* The Illusionists
* The Truth About Cushgar
* The Second Night of Summer

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* Gnome Press, 1960
* Permabooks, 1962
* Mayflower/Dell, 1964
* Tempo Books/Grosset & Dunlap, 1972
* Ace Books, 1982
* Ace Books, 1983
Lifesize Sorcerer

The **Animated Lifesize Sorcerer** was an animatronic sold for the 2019 Halloween season in The Home Depotin the us and canada. It resembles a wizened old man with a bushy gray beard who's LED eyes light up crimson-red as his mouth moves to spooky phrases. Adding onto his LED eyes, his crystal ball also lights pink to give off a eerie effect to let those know he really isn't joking around when he tells them he's a sorcerer.

## Where it Was Sold

This animatronic was sold at the Home Depot and the Home Depot Canada in 2019 in-stores and online.
Terokaw

Mr. **Terokaw** was a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman who planned to clear-cut the Cholm Diamondwood farm on Wrake. In partnership with Kugus Ovin, he planned to use the fraudulent adoption of Kugus' niece Auris Luteel, who owns nine-tenths of the farm, to gain control of the property. His plan was to "level" the forest in a week, ship the Diamondwood to off-world processing plants, and flood the market while Diamondwood products were still at the height of fashion. The plan would have made him even more wealthy, had the Queen Grove not had a plan of its own. In the end, Mr. Terokaw was swallowed whole by Sam the mossback.

Terokaw is never described physically, except to mention his blue eyes.

## In the works

Terokaw appears in the following work:

* "Balanced Ecology"
Left Hand, Right Hand

The novella **Left Hand, Right Hand** was originally published in November 1962.

## Blurb

"Men were tortured... men were killed... and the Earth Scientists chatted pleasantly with the Tareeg. Were they traitors or were they waiting for The Ice Men?"

-- *Great Science Fiction*, Winter 1968

## Online text

The story is available online at:

* Project Gutenberg (original text)

## Publication history

For a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

* *Amazing Stories*, Nov 1962
* *Great Science Fiction*, Winter 1968
* *Eternal Frontier*, 2002
Eileen Howard

Both Markus Menzies and his business partner Geoffrey Bryant were in love with **Eileen Howard**. Their maneuverings to capture her attention eventually lead to her accidental death, for which they both felt responsibility. The grief and bitterness it engendered caused them to dissolve their partnership.

## In the works

Eileen is mentioned in the following work:

* "Would You?"