Hi Scott, I have read a few Schmitz short stories in the not too distant past - the much-anthologised 'Grandpa' in Penguin SF Omnibus selected by Brian Aldiss, 'The Second Night of Summer' in Oxford Bk of SF Stories selected by Tom Shippey, 'Balanced Ecology' in Norton Bk of SF selected by Le Guin & Attebery. Good clean prose and inventive world building etc - a lot of his stuff seems to have young adult protaganists, tho the stories I read didn't exactly feel like YA SF à la the Heinlein of Podkayne of Mars etc - thank god, maybe.
I also have this nice old Ace pbk waiting to be read - the following in the blurb on the back made me laugh - "The story of Telzey Amberdom, the one in a million mentalist..."
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link