Espionage and Intrigue in the
Far Reaches of the Galaxy
from the Creator of Telzey Amberdon
and Trigger Argee

The Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let along prosper. But prosper it did, to the bewilderment of observers, who didn't know about the Vegans' secret weapon.

Once, the Galactic Empire had spanned the stars and when it crumbled and fell, star systems were isolated, some barely surviving, many becoming tyrannical feifdoms, others turning to piracy, and all of them often at war with each other. The Confederacy didn't have huge space armadas, and millions of troops to protect itself and re-civilize its neighbors, but it did have the Zone agents. Few outside the top echelons of the Confederacy even knew that they existed, and even fewer had an inkling of how the agents time and again could appear on the spot just when a push in the right place could stop a war, topple a despot, or thwart an invasion of unfriendly aliens.

Their numbers were pitifully few, and they had to patrol vast stretches of space. They were helped by their ships, bristling with hidden armament and piloted by robot brains of high intelligence. But their main weapon was that the minds of their opponents were open books to them. Not all of the Agents of Vega were human, but they were the most powerful telepaths the Galaxy had ever known . . .

Publisher's Note: Part of Agent of Vega & Other Stories has previously appeared separately. This is the first expanded, unitary publication.

"Take my advice and buy TWO copies of this book! You'll want to lend it to friends and (trust me on this: I have years of experience to back up the observation) once people get their hands on a Schmitz book, they don't let go!" - Janet Kagan, Hugo-Winner and author of Uhura's Song

"Wonderfully fresh imagination." -The Horn Book

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    Classic writing with twists of underlying irony and humor. This is one of the books you give a niece or nephew to turn them on to great story telling.

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    Gotta love classics like this.The writing style is very different from many of today's authors, but that doesn't make it bad. (Of course, I cut my teeth on this stuff, so to speak, so I may be biased.)

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    Amazing stories. This is science fiction that I love. Because of such stories I started to read science fiction some 30 years ago. I would love to see such stories in Jim Beans Universe.

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    i found this book unreadable, it dosent take much of a half baked sf story to create a reality, a concept of even just pictures with in my imagernation but this book gave me nothing, i kept drifting of to more interesting idears like belly button lint.
    i realy did try , wanting to be fair to an author who would put out a story for free threw bain but sorry it was a lead baloon.

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    One of my all-time favourite classics! I personally consider that Schmitz's stories are as timeless as Heinlein's classics - and this collection has some of his best stories. Very well worth reading.

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