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    James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 – July 30, 1975) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels...
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  • "Common Time" is a science fiction short story by American writer James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly...
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    introducing ideas not often seen in other authors' juvenile SF. In 1957, James Blish wrote that one reason for Heinlein's success "has been the high grade...
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    A hobo who carried a bindle was known as a bindlestiff. According to James Blish in his novel A Life for the Stars, a bindlestiff was specifically a hobo...
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    series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively...
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    collection of stories (1939–1962) James Blish, "Surface Tension" (1952) (Book 3 of The Seedling Stars (1957) James Blish, "Surface Tension" (1952) (Book...
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  • Black Easter (category Novels by James Blish)
    Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth...
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    adapted from The Golden Bough, a study of myth and religion by her husband James George Frazer. She described living with her father's friends and acquaintances...
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  • Surface Tension (short story) (category Short stories by James Blish)
    story by American writer James Blish, originally published in the August 1952 of Galaxy Science Fiction. As collected in Blish's The Seedling Stars, it...
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  • the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies from 1959 to 1961, with James Blish, Poul Anderson, Philip José Farmer, Anthony Boucher, John Brunner, Brian...
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    Figures of Earth (category Novels by James Branch Cabell)
    paperback reissues in 1969 and 1971, with introductions by Lin Carter and James Blish respectively, brought it back into circulation. The New York Times, reviewing...
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    Spengler's work, and referred to him often in his early lecture courses. James Blish used many of Spengler's ideas in his books Cities in Flight. Francis...
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  • that other hand out of his pocket." Science fiction writer and critic James Blish, writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of characterization...
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  • Heinlein (1956) The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (1958) A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959) 1960s Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960) A Canticle...
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  • A Case of Conscience (category Novels by James Blish)
    A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by American writer James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates...
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    2 I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1-85798-809-4 1954 3 Cities in Flight James Blish 11 February 1999 1-85798-811-6 1950–1970 4 Do Androids Dream of Electric...
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    science fiction short story 1965 – James T. Grady Award of the American Chemical Society (now called the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting...
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  • dictionary. Anywhen may refer to: At any point in time Anywhen, a novella by James Blish Anywhen, a project by Philippe Parreno Anywhere (disambiguation) This...
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  • The Star Trek franchise's first tie-in publications were James Blish's 1967 volume of episode novelizations and Mack Reynolds's 1968 young adult novel...
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  • Doctor Mirabilis (novel) (category Novels by James Blish)
    historical novel written in 1964 by American writer James Blish. This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Knowledge (1958-1971)...
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    The term gas giant was coined in 1952 by the science fiction writer James Blish and was originally used to refer to all giant planets. It is, arguably...
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    Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein (1951) A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1954) 1968–1980 Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer /Weyr...
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  • Heinlein (1956) The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (1958) A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959) 1960s Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960) A Canticle...
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  • from the original on August 31, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2013. Frey, James N. (2010). How to Write a Damn Good Thriller: A Step-by-Step Guide for Novelists...
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  • stills. Many of Bantam's Star Trek releases remained in print until 1991. James Blish was known to have expressed an extreme dislike for tie-in fiction; however...
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    Arrowhead is the name that science fiction writer James Blish and his wife, literary agent and science fiction writer Virginia Kidd, gave to their home...
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  • the immediate future as it will, Brunner convinces you, certainly be". James Blish said "I disliked everybody in it and I was constantly impeded by the...
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  • Search of Wonder, says that the term may have originated with author James Blish.: 26  Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot as a narrative...
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    Heinlein (1956) The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (1958) A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959) 1960s Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960) A Canticle...
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  • style was characterized as "pedestrian, out-at-the-elbows prose" by James Blish. December 1932: Letter (The Same as Earthians), in Wonder Stories June...
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