James Blish
(James Benjamin Blish)
(1921 - 1975)(Husband of J A Lawrence)
aka
William Atheling Jr, Donald Laverty, Marcus Lyons, John MacDougal, Arthur Merlyn
Series
Cities in Flight
1. They Shall Have Stars (1956)
aka Year 2018!
2. A Life for the Stars (1962)
3. Earthman, Come Home (1956)
4. The Triumph of Time (1958)
aka A Clash of Cymbals
Cities in Flight (omnibus) (1970)
1. They Shall Have Stars (1956)
aka Year 2018!
2. A Life for the Stars (1962)
3. Earthman, Come Home (1956)
4. The Triumph of Time (1958)
aka A Clash of Cymbals
Cities in Flight (omnibus) (1970)
After Such Knowledge
1. A Case of Conscience (1958)
2. Doctor Mirabilis (1964)
3. Black Easter: Or Faust Aleph-Null (1968)
4. The Day After Judgement (1971)
The Devil's Day (omnibus) (1985)
After Such Knowledge (omnibus) (1991)
1. A Case of Conscience (1958)
2. Doctor Mirabilis (1964)
3. Black Easter: Or Faust Aleph-Null (1968)
4. The Day After Judgement (1971)
The Devil's Day (omnibus) (1985)
After Such Knowledge (omnibus) (1991)
Haertel Scholium
So Close to Home (1961)
Welcome to Mars! (1967)
Anywhen (1971)
Midsummer Century (1972)
The Quincunx of Time (1973)
So Close to Home (1961)
Welcome to Mars! (1967)
Anywhen (1971)
Midsummer Century (1972)
The Quincunx of Time (1973)
Novels
Jack of Eagles (1952)
aka ESPer
The Warriors of Day (1953)
The Frozen Year (1957)
aka Fallen Star
VOR (1958)
The Duplicated Man (1959) (with Robert A W Lowndes)
Titan's Daughter (1961)
The Night Shapes (1962)
A Torrent of Faces (1967) (with Norman L Knight)
Giants in the Earth (1968)
The Vanished Jet (1968)
...And All the Stars a Stage (1971)
aka ESPer
The Warriors of Day (1953)
The Frozen Year (1957)
aka Fallen Star
VOR (1958)
The Duplicated Man (1959) (with Robert A W Lowndes)
Titan's Daughter (1961)
The Night Shapes (1962)
A Torrent of Faces (1967) (with Norman L Knight)
Giants in the Earth (1968)
The Vanished Jet (1968)
...And All the Stars a Stage (1971)
Collections
The Seedling Stars (1957)
Galactic Cluster (1959)
Best Science Fiction Stories (1973)
The Testament of Andros (1977)
The Best of James Blish (1979)
Get Out of My Sky (1980) (with Poul Anderson and Thomas N Scortia)
A Work of Art (1993)
With All of Love: Selected Poems (poems) (1995)
A Dusk of Idols (1996)
In This World, or Another (2003)
Works of Art (2008)
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two (2011) (with Marion Zimmer Bradley, Roger Dee, Philip K Dick, Philip José Farmer, C M Kornbluth, Alan E Nourse, Rog Phillips, Robert Silverberg and Manly Wade Wellman)
Galactic Cluster (1959)
Best Science Fiction Stories (1973)
The Testament of Andros (1977)
The Best of James Blish (1979)
Get Out of My Sky (1980) (with Poul Anderson and Thomas N Scortia)
A Work of Art (1993)
With All of Love: Selected Poems (poems) (1995)
A Dusk of Idols (1996)
In This World, or Another (2003)
Works of Art (2008)
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two (2011) (with Marion Zimmer Bradley, Roger Dee, Philip K Dick, Philip José Farmer, C M Kornbluth, Alan E Nourse, Rog Phillips, Robert Silverberg and Manly Wade Wellman)
Series contributed to
James Blish's Star Trek
Star Trek 1 (1967)
Star Trek 2 (1968)
Star Trek 3 (1969)
Spock Must Die! (1970)
Star Trek 4 (1971)
Star Trek 5 (1972)
Star Trek 6 (1972)
Star Trek 7 (1972)
Star Trek 8 (1972)
Star Trek 9 (1973)
Star Trek 10 (1974)
Star Trek 11 (1975)
Star Trek 12 (1977) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 1 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 2 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 3 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek 1 (1967)
Star Trek 2 (1968)
Star Trek 3 (1969)
Spock Must Die! (1970)
Star Trek 4 (1971)
Star Trek 5 (1972)
Star Trek 6 (1972)
Star Trek 7 (1972)
Star Trek 8 (1972)
Star Trek 9 (1973)
Star Trek 10 (1974)
Star Trek 11 (1975)
Star Trek 12 (1977) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 1 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 2 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 3 (1991) (with J A Lawrence)
James Blish's Star Trek Reader
1. The Star Trek Reader I (1976)
2. The Star Trek Reader II (1977)
3. The Star Trek Reader III (1977)
4. The Star Trek Reader IV (1978)
1. The Star Trek Reader I (1976)
2. The Star Trek Reader II (1977)
3. The Star Trek Reader III (1977)
4. The Star Trek Reader IV (1978)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
The Issue at Hand: Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction (1964) (writing as William Atheling Jr)
More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction (1970) (writing as William Atheling Jr)
Tale That Wags the God (1987)
More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction (1970) (writing as William Atheling Jr)
Tale That Wags the God (1987)
Anthologies containing stories by James Blish
Things (1951)
Stories for Tomorrow (1954)
Best SF (1955)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
Get Out of My Sky (1960)
Spectrum 2 (1962)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 12th Series (1963)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
Best SF 6 (1966)
Science Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968)
Four for the Future (1969)
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction (1969)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 (1972)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two B (1973)
Space 1 (1973)
Antigrav: Cosmic Comedies by SF Masters (1975)
The Best from Galaxy, Volume III (1975)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
The Great SF Stories 3: 1941 (1980)
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1981)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
Afterlives (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
The Science Fiction Century (1996)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (1999)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
Stories for Tomorrow (1954)
Best SF (1955)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
Get Out of My Sky (1960)
Spectrum 2 (1962)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 12th Series (1963)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
Best SF 6 (1966)
Science Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968)
Four for the Future (1969)
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction (1969)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 (1972)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two B (1973)
Space 1 (1973)
Antigrav: Cosmic Comedies by SF Masters (1975)
The Best from Galaxy, Volume III (1975)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
The Great SF Stories 3: 1941 (1980)
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1981)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
Afterlives (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
The Science Fiction Century (1996)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (1999)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
Short stories
| Solar Plexus (1941) | |||
| There Shall Be No Darkness (1950) | |||
| Bridge (1952) | |||
| Surface Tension (1952) | |||
| A Case of Conscience [short story] (1953) | |||
| Common Time (1953) | |||
| Earthman, Come Home [short story] (1953) | |||
| At Death's End (1954) | |||
| Beep (1954) | |||
| Get Out of My Sky [short story] (1956) | |||
| A Work of Art [short story] (1956) | |||
| The Masks (1959) | |||
| In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag (1961) | |||
| Who's in Charge Here? (1962) | |||
| No Jokes on Mars (1965) | |||
| The Shipwrecked Hotel (1965) (with Norman L Knight) | Nebula (nominee) | ||
| A Hero's Life (1966) | |||
| How Beautiful with Banners (1966) | |||
| Balance of Terror (1967) | |||
| Charlie's Law (1967) | |||
| The Conscience of the King (1967) | |||
| Dagger of the Mind (1967) | |||
| Miri (1967) | |||
| The Naked Time (1967) | |||
| The Unreal McCoy (1967) | |||
| Arena (1968) | |||
| The City on the Edge of Forever (1968) | |||
| Court Martial (1968) | |||
| Errand of Mercy (1968) | |||
| Operation-Annihilate (1968) | |||
| Skysign (1968) | |||
| Space Seed (1968) | |||
| A Taste of Armageddon (1968) | |||
| Tomorrow is Yesterday (1968) | |||
| Amok Time (1969) | |||
| Assignment: Earth (1969) | |||
| The Doomsday Machine (1969) | |||
| Friday's Child (1969) | |||
| The Last Gunfight (1969) | |||
| Mirror, Mirror (1969) | |||
| The Trouble with Tribbles (1969) | |||
| More Light (1970) | |||
| We All Die Naked (1970) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| All Our Yesterdays (1971) | |||
| The Devil in the Dark (1971) | |||
| The Enterprise Incident (1971) | |||
| Journey to Babel (1971) | |||
| The Menagerie (1971) | |||
| A Piece of the Action (1971) | |||
| The Apple (1972) | |||
| By Any Other Name (1972) | |||
| Catspaw (1972) | |||
| The Changeling (1972) | |||
| The Cloud Minders (1972) | |||
| The Deadly Years (1972) | |||
| Elaan of Troyius (1972) | |||
| The Enemy Within (1972) | |||
| For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1972) | |||
| Getting Along (1972) | |||
| Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1972) | |||
| The Lights of Zetar (1972) | |||
| The Mark of Gideon (1972) | |||
| Metamorphosis (1972) | |||
| The Paradise Syndrome (1972) | |||
| Requiem for Methuselah (1972) | |||
| The Savage Curtain (1972) | |||
| Spock's Brain (1972) | |||
| This Side of Paradise (1972) | |||
| The Tholian Web (1972) | |||
| Turnabout Intruder (1972) | |||
| The Way to Eden (1972) | |||
| Where No Man Has Gone Before (1972) | |||
| Who Mourns for Adonais? (1972) | |||
| Whom Gods Destroy (1972) | |||
| Wolf in the Fold (1972) | |||
| The Immunity Syndrome (1973) | |||
| Obsession (1973) | |||
| The Return of the Archons (1973) | |||
| Return to Tomorrow (1973) | |||
| That Which Survives (1973) | |||
| The Ultimate Computer (1973) | |||
| The Alternative Factor (1974) | |||
| The Empath (1974) | |||
| The Galileo Seven (1974) | |||
| The Glitch (1974) (with L Jerome Stanton) | |||
| Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1974) | |||
| The Omega Glory (1974) | |||
| A Private Little War (1974) | |||
| Bread and Circuses (1975) | |||
| Day of the Dove (1975) | |||
| Plato's Stepchildren (1975) | |||
| The Squire of Gothos (1975) | |||
| What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1975) | |||
| Wink of an Eye (1975) | |||
| And the Children Shall Lead (1977) | |||
| The Corbomite Maneuver (1977) | |||
| The Gamesters of Triskelion (1977) | |||
| Patterns of Force (1977) | |||
| Shore Leave (1977) | |||
| A Matter of Energy | |||
| Testament of Andros | |||
| Turn of a Century |
Awards
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Books about James Blish
Links to other websites
| jamesblishappreciation.co.uk |
James Blish recommends
 Dangerous Visions 1 (1967) Harlan Ellison "There has never been a collection like this before." |  Pstalemate (1971) Lester del Rey "The telepathy novel against which all others will be weighed and found wanting." |
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