A collection of stories by James Schmitz. They are described as "adventures in time and space." This is a welcome re-issuing of many stories that appeared only in magazines before I was reading science fiction.

The stories are
Part 1: Adventures in Time and Space
- "The Big Terrarium"
- "Summer Guests"
- "Captain of the Thieve-Star"
- "Caretaker"
- "One Step Ahead"
- "Left Hand, Right Hand"

Part 2: Homo Excelsior
- "The Ties of Earth"
- "Spacemaster"
- "The Altruist"
- "Oneness"

Part 3: Dark Visions
- "We Don't Want Any Trouble"
- "Just Curious"
- "Would You?"
- "These Are the Arts"
- "Clean Slate"

Part 4: Time for Crime
- "Crime Buff"
- "Ham Sandwich"
- "Where the TIme Went"
- "An Incident on Route 12"
- "Swift Completion"
- "Faddist"

The Eternal Frontiers (novel)
Afterword, by Guy Gordon
James H. Schmitz Chronography, by Eric Flint

Edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon.
Baen Books, Riverdale, New York, U.S., 2002
ISBN 0-7434-3559-1

Books:
- Agent of Vega and Other Stories by James Schmitz
- Telzey Amberdon, stories, including 'The Lion Game,' by James Schmitz
- T 'n' T: Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee, stories, including 'The Telzey Toy,' by James Schmitz
- The Hub: Dangerous Territory, stories, including 'The Demon Breed,' by James Schmitz
- The Eternal Frontier, stories by James Schmitz
- Legacy (Trigger Argee), a novel by James Schmitz
- Trigger and Friends, stories by James Schmitz
- The Lion Game, a novel by James Schmitz
- The Telzey Toy, a novel by James Schmitz
- The Demon Breed, a novel by James Schmitz
- The Universe Against Her, a novel by James Schmitz
- The Witches of Karres, a novel by James Schmitz

I am finishing up this book. Some of the stories are quite early Schmitz, when his own writing style is still developing. However, they are good. The last part of the book is a novel, "The Eternal Frontiers," which I have not read before. Unlike some of the other stories, it has his "voice" and formidably competent female characters, though only a couple. In his later stories, the balance is much more like the real world.

(It's well known in feminist circles that women are underrepresented in fiction and example. In movies, 20% or fewer of the characters are women. In architectural streetscape drawings, 20% of the people on the streets are women; but if you take a photograph you'll find, of course, about 50%. Feminist humour includes the concept of the "woman bank" where all the extra females are stored away.)

Schmitz, to his credit, realized that science fiction was unrealistic in an unnecessary way and began to include more female characters as his fiction developed.