Schmitz's "The Second Night of Summer", part of his "Agent of Vega" series, was the cover story in the third issue of Galaxy Science Fiction in 1950Schmitz's novelette "Captives of the Thieve-Star" was the cover story in the May 1951 issue of Planet StoriesThe first installment of Schmitz's novella "The Ties of Earth" took the cover of the November 1955 issue of Galaxy Science FictionSchmitz's novella "Left Hand, Right Hand" was the cover story on the November 1962 issue of Amazing StoriesSchmitz's novella "Beacon to Elsewhere" took the cover of the April 1963 issue of Amazing Stories
James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911 – April 18, 1981) was a German-American science fiction writer.[1]