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James Blish

Born

in East Orange, New Jersey, The United States

May 23, 1921

Died

July 30, 1975

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy

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James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.

In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians.

Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer.

He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The sto ...more

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	A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) by James Blish, Greg Bear (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 7,366 ratings — published 1958 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cities in Flight (Cities in Flight, #1-4) by James Blish, Betty Ballantine (Introduction), R.D. Mullen (Afterword) 3.92 avg rating — 6,700 ratings — published 1970 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Trek 1 3.72 avg rating — 2,104 ratings — published 1967 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spock Must Die! (Star Trek Adventures, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 2,096 ratings — published 1970 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Shall Have Stars (Cities in Flight, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 1,852 ratings — published 1956 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Trek 2 3.71 avg rating — 1,259 ratings — published 1968 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life for the Stars (Cities in Flight, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 1,198 ratings — published 1962 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Trek 3 3.67 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 1969 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Easter (After Such Knowledge, #2) 3.84 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 1968 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Trek 4 3.69 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 1971 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Star Trek (12 books)
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Greg Bear (Introduction)

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“She was right. Peace was the way.
She was right. But at the wrong time.”
― James Blish

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“I will be the first. As of tonight, I renounce my citizenship in the United Nations, and my allegiance to the Shelter state. From now on I will be a citizen--a citizen of no country but that bounded by the limits of my own mind. I do not know what those limits are, and I may never find out, but I shall devote my life to searching for them, in whatever manner seems good to me, and in no other manner whatsoever.
You must do the same. Tear up your registration cards. If you are asked your serial number, tell them you never had one. Never fill in another form. Stay above ground when the siren sounds. Stake out plots; grow crops; abandon the corridors. Do not commit any violence; simply refuse to obey. Nobody has the. right to compel you, as non-citizens. Passivity is the key. Renounce, resist, deny!”
― James Blish, A Case of Conscience

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“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...”
― James Blish, Cities in Flight

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