![]() ![]() ![]() From 1949, when "Agent of Vega" (July 1949 Astounding) appeared as the first of four stories featuring sentient Robot Spaceships and "Galactic Zones" troubleshooters with Psi Powers, later assembled as Agent of Vega (coll of linked stories 1960) – they are also included in Agent of Vega and Other Stories (coll 2001) with many other tales – he regularly produced the kind of Genre SF for which he remains most warmly remembered: Space-Opera adventures, several featuring female Heroes depicted with minimum recourse to their "femininity" – they perform their active tasks, and save the Universe when necessary, in a manner almost completely free of sexual role-playing Clichés. ![]() (1911-1981) German-born author whose parents were American in the US from 1938, serving with the USAF in World War Two his first story was "Greenface" for Unknown in August 1943. ![]()
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