Nomination (Polled 46), Locus Award (All-time best SF novel before 1990), 1998įor a more detailed history see the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.A New Sequel to The Witches of Karres.

Nomination (Polled 31), Locus Award (All-time best SF novel), 1987.

Nomination (Polled 36), Locus Award (All-time best novel), 1975.

Finalist, Hugo Award (Best novel), 1967.

Internet Archive (edited by Eric Flint).The Witches of Karres combines humor, suspense and magic in unforgettable portions.' 'James Schmitz has done it again, deftly building a rollicking, boisterous tale of the future into the grand dimensions of an outre classic. What a plight for an innocent, young trader. 'For the hapless Pausert is now involved in a war spanning the entire universe, with aliens, humans, and forces all beyond his comprehension. It simply raises a spaceship's speed to a degree that it enters another dimension and reappears billions of mils away. Hurried into desperate flight, a new power of the three elfin children appears, the Sheewash Drive. 'In no time at all, Pausert has the whole Galaxy pursuing him and his passengers, including the law-enforcement authorities of his own planet. Furthermore, these charming children themselves are teleports, a talent used chiefly for theft, and also masters of other hidden and weird powers. 'The poor fellow has adopted three of the notorious Witches of Karres, inhabitants of a mystery planet which moves around, in space.

'Goth, Maleen and the Leewit (not Leewit, the Leewit), as the charming trio are named, soon demonstrate why their former owner can now relax. The cruel master seems relieved, oddly enough. 'Here, he finds three helpless and attractive little girls, held as slaves by a cruel master, and buys them in a spirit of generosity. 'Young Captain Pausert, of the independent planet Nikkeldepain, has gone alone, on a private trading venture in his own vessel, to Porlumma, a border planet of the Empire (Galactic, that is). 'Hurrah for kindness, virtue and free enterprise!

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