The Flame That’s in Her Eyes
The Universe Against Her (Telzey Amberdon, volume 1)
By James H. Schmitz

20 Sep, 2020
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
James H. Schmitz’s 1964 The Universe Against Her is a fix-up and expansion of the novelette Novice(1962) and the novella Undercurrents (1964).
Telzey Amberdon is a bright, fifteen-year-old second-year law student at the prestigious Pehanron College on Orado. Unfortunately for her, Telzey is not currently on Orado. She is on Jontarou, visiting her least-lovable aunt, Halet. Halet is full of saccharine spite; she has plans for her excessively intellectual niece.
Halet is not the only person in whose schemes Telzey features.