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	James Blish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942-1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army.
		Of Blish's short stories, his most famous are the 'Pantropy' stories (collected in The Seedling Stars), in which humans are modified to live in various alien environments, this being easier and vastly cheaper than terraforming.
		Blish collaborated with Norman L. Knight on a series of stories set in a world with a population a thousand times that of today, and followed the efforts of those keeping the system running, collected in one volume as A Torrent of Faces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Blish (1251 words)

	James Blish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 - Henley-on-Thames, July 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction.
		The first, A Case of Conscience (a winner of the 1959 Hugo award), showed a Jesuit priest confronted with an alien intelligent race, apparently unfallen, which he eventually concludes must be a Satanic fabrication.
		Blish wrote criticism of science fiction (some quite scathing) under the name of William Atheling Jr.: the articles were reprinted in two collections, The Issue at Hand (1964) and More Issues at Hand (1970).
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/james_blish.html (808 words)

	In This World, Or Another: Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blish, who died in 1975, is regrettably no longer available to provide introductions to the stories selected for the new anthology, but his wife, Judith Lawrence, fills in where need be.
		Blish balances these tough musings with gorgeous musical writing, describing compositions in a manner so loving and with such comprehension for music that the reader is quite transported.
		James Blish is one of the great authors of science fiction precisely because he understands that literature — all literature — proceeds from the dilemmas and decisions that human beings are required to make by a universe full of possibilities.
	www.wigglefish.com /stories/0001_0005_0001.cfm?ID=1351 (855 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- James Blish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Blish played a key role in the transformation of pulp science fiction into more mature and eloquent forms.
		Blish worked hard to develop his craft, but it was not until the 1950s, with his "Okie" (or "Cities in Flight") stories, that he made his mark.
		Blish's later years were preoccupied with Star Trek books, as well as with the encouragement of younger writers through the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference, the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the UK's Science Fiction Foundation, each of which he helped found.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=66 (410 words)

	Beep by James Blish
		Blish moved permanently to England in the 1960s, where his writing was taken more seriously as contemporary literature than in the U. His major achievements in science fiction are generally regarded as the four-volume Cities in Flight (1970), and A Case of Conscience (1958), a classic theological sf novel.
		Blish presents the outline for a strictly deterministic utopia through a series of entertaining narrative devices.
		It is worth noting that Blish expanded this story later in his career into the novel, The Quincunx of Time (1973), and that the longer version is disappointingly discursive.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Beep.html (336 words)

	James Blish - Wikipedia
		James Blish (May 23 1921 - July 29 1975), American author of fantasy and science fiction.
		The first was the development of the anti-ageing drug ascomycin - Blish's employer Pfizer makes a thinly disguised appearance in a section showing the screening of biological samples for interesting activity.
		Blish wrote criticism of science fiction (some quite scathing) under the name of William Atheling jnr: the articles were reprinted in two collections, 'The Issue at Hand', (1964) and 'More Issues at Hand' (1970).
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Blish (812 words)

	Review James Blish - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the late 1960s James Blish began writing "The Star Trek Readers," a series of paperbacks in which he adapted the scripts of what was then the late lamented original "Star Trek" series.
		James Blish, who died from lung cancer at the age of 54 in 1975, did a very nice job of adapting the Star Trek scripts into short story form.
		First published in 1968, these short stories are Blish's adaptations of the screenplays of various episodes from season 1 of the original series.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/authorsearch_James%20Blish/mode_books (643 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		The teenage Blish tells with juvenile brio the tale of space pirate Dan Lothar, whose damaged craft falls into Neptune's atmosphere only to be rescued by a strange cult of superhumans, who enlist Lothar in their upcoming battle against an intergalactic menace.
		James Blish was never a best-selling SF writer during his lifetime, nor exceedingly famous.
		James Blish was the model of a caring, exacting SF writer, and his accomplishments are fairly well served by this volume.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue330/books.html (825 words)

	Cosmic Dust Bowl: James Blish and 'Cities in Flight'
		Despite the fact that James Blish was considered a major science fiction stylist and visionary, few outside a hardcore cadre of readers knew him as anything but the man responsible for 22 volumes of Star Trek adaptations by the time he died in 1975.
		However, as Blish ambles along, he foreshadows two major themes for the novels to come -- the relentless libertarianism that spawns the Okie culture, and the belief that religion is either a con or a method of mobilizing a barbarian horde.
		Blish anchors the cosmic turmoil with his primary concerns here: the psychology of immortality and the character of John Amalfi, undying mayor of New York.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/cities_flight_000413.html (1290 words)

	James Blish in LeufSfForum
		BLISH: I did some of the Okie stories before I did "Bridge." It was only later on that I came to realise that before I got my cities into the sky we needed two fundamental discoveries.
		BLISH: There are two such books, one a sequel to the other, but I don't feel they deal with the end of things.
		BLISH: This has often puzzled me. So many people have said that my writing is cold, in one way or another, that I must assume it to be true.
	leuf.net /ww/wikisf?JamesBlish (4829 words)

	Powell's Books - A Case of Conscience by James Blish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Ruiz-Sanchez, a priest and scientist, is sent to Lithia, where he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason, which makes them incapable of faith or belief.
		James Blish served in World War II as a medical technician, joined the Futurians--a group of science fiction writers, fans, editors, and publishers-- wrote more than twenty books, and won the Hugo Award for A Case of Conscience in 1959.
		In later years, James Blish contributed original stories and screenplays to the Star Trek saga.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0345438353-2 (259 words)

	A Case of Conscience by James Blish, science fiction book
		The strengths: The Lithians are a fascinating alien race, with an interesting life cycle, an intriguing culture, an unusual history of scientific development on their metal-poor planet, and cool artifacts like the Message Tree; Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a good protagonist, sincere and thoughtful yet fallible; the two moral dilemmas he confronts are unique in literature.
		James Blish also wrote, based on the original TV scripts, the first series of Star Trek books.
		Blish, under the pseudonym of William Atheling Jr., was an influential SF critic.
	members.aol.com /firoane/blish.htm (1232 words)

	1380I James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) [m]
		On July 5th, 2002, James Blish was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
		Blish leaves a wife, the former Judy Ann Lawrence, an artist and writer, and a son by his earlier marriage to Virginia Kidd.
		Blish elevates Bacon at the expense of Albertus and Aquinas."
	www.blish.org /gens/1380I.html (2156 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Cities in Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blish gives the same weight and authority both to the sweeping cultural change wrought and suffered by the cities, and to the emotional growth of a man who is several hundred years old.
		Blish's sf epic was originally published as four separate novels--They Shall Have Stars; A Life for the Stars; Earthman, Come Home; and The Triumph of Time--which became known over time collectively as the "Okie novels." The title of this edition is apt, as the thread of the story concerns entire cities that fly through space.
		But in terms of ideas and scope, Blish was standing nearly alone and I have to admit I have a fondness for the type of SF that liked the idea of strapping giant engines onto things and sending them into space.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585670081?v=glance (2071 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Seedling Stars
		James Blish was born in 1921 at East Orange, New Jersey.
		Blish moved to England in 1968 with his 2nd wife, Judith Ann Lawrence.
		Blish took his 1942 story, "Sunken Universe," and joined it, in much revised form, to his 1952 classic "Surface Tension," to create Book 3 of The Seedling Stars.
	www.sfsite.com /08b/ss110.htm (855 words)

	SPACELIGHT: Blish, James B. - personal data
		WWII got in the way and Blish was drafted immediately after graduation and served until 1944 as a medical technician.
		After the war, Blish resumed his studies at Columbia for two years and during this period joined the Futurians.
		Blish maintained a day job, writing in his spare time, always thinking of himself as a SF writer.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/blish.html (408 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		First published in 1959, James Blish's Hugo Award-winning A Case of Conscience is science fiction at its very best: a fast-paced, intelligent story that offers plenty of action while at the same time explores complex questions of values and ethics.
		His tone is measured and calm and he takes his time laying everything out and even if you go in with a certain point of view, he may not change your mind but he'll at least give you cause to stop and think for a moment about your beliefs, whether you're religious or an athiest.
		I cried at the end because while fiction, Blish is summing up mankind in one book and while this work is fiction, I know that is what would probably happen in real life is such an event occured.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345438353?v=glance (2543 words)

	Internet Book List :: Author Information: James Blish
		James Benjamin Blish was born in New Jersey on May 23, 1921, and died on July 30, 1975, at his home in England.
		He wrote his first science fiction story at the age of nine, a document executed in careful pencil and now residing in the Blish Collection archive of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, along with his first editions, manuscripts and other documents.
		He contributed to the James Joyce Quarterly and Kalki, the journal of the James Branch Cabell Society.
	www.iblist.com /author600.htm (606 words)

	Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews #21: James Blish
		Many newer readers may know James Blish for his Star Trek books, but his writing spans four decades, with most of his best work being written in the fifties -- a decade notable for the volume and the variety of his work.
		I see these three as the best starting points for readers who are unfamiliar with Blish, but readers who enjoy these may want to read other Blish novels.
		The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part, to appreciate the Cardinal Number system.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/021.htm (844 words)

	Trapping a Practical Guide - James Bateman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Oscar award winning film "Titanic" directed by James Cameron has a similar scene, although the characters are not identified.
		James B Hunt - Addresses and public papers of James Baxter Hunt, Jr., governor of North Carolina - 0865261784
		James Breech - Silence of Jesus - 0800619463
	www.booksearchbyauthor.com /420596_james-bradley_055367314912copyflagsofourfathersaudiomixfloordisplaywithspecialriserbookreportsearch.html (460 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: A Case of Conscience / James Blish
		Responsibility is one of the themes of the novel's second half, too, but Blish frantically darts his attention back and forth between several characters.
		By trying to cover too much ground as the book nears its finale, Blish tries his readers' patience and the whole affair leaves you with no one to root for, and no particular desire to hang out in this insane, bleak, and chaotic world.
		But that first half is some truly brilliant, classic storytelling that showed Blish, when in his prime, could have easily been a Grand Master; the decline of his career into Star Trek novelizations and early death at 59 seem doubly sad.
	www.sfreviews.net /caseofconscience.html (809 words)

	Contents Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		• The Menagerie • James Blish • sa *; screenplay by Gene Roddenberry.
		• The Paradise Syndrome • James Blish • sa *; screenplay by Margaret Armen.
		• The Empath • James Blish • sa *; screenplay by Joyce Muskat.
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/isfac/t12.htm (3548 words)

	Buy.com - Black Easter : James Blish : ISBN 0899683924
		Blish's first story was published in 1940, after which he attended Rutgers University, studying biology.
		Blish and Kidd were divorced in 1963, and the next year he married writer and illustrator Judith Ann Lawrence (the two remained married until Blish's death from cancer).
		The majority of the rest of his publications are, in some way or another, related to the show, and are, by general consensus, of little value--several of them were actually written by his wife, with rumored help from her mother.
	www.buy.com /prod/Black_Easter/q/loc/106/30527596.html (552 words)

	Review: A Case of Conscience by James Blish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blish packs a lot great stuff into this small package.
		Blish does an excellent job of throwing out tidbits about the societies that add flavor to the book without bogging it down.
		%A Blish, James %T A Case of Conscience %I Del Rey Impact %D 2000-09 (original publication 1958) %G ISBN 0-345-43835-3 %P 242 pp.
	www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/case-of-conscience.html (424 words)

	James Blish
		Sadly forgotten by many, James Blish was one of those rare hybrids who could produce science fiction about people or about technology.
		His landmark books are the cities in flight series, with the fascinating concept of spindizzy motors that lift whole cities into space, and the soul searching, thematically link books Black Easter, A Case of Conscience and Doctor Mirabilis, his book about the remarkable Roger Bacon.
		Blish is sadly mostly remembered now for TV SF novelisations.
	www.cul.co.uk /books/sfauth2.htm (365 words)

	JAMES BLISH - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		James Blish brought a clever intellectualism to space opera, mixing in ethics, genetic manipulation, and religion in works that helped define science fiction in the 40s and 50s.
		In 1940, he became a full-time writer creating groups of novels that were alternately space opera and novels weighing in on the price of knowledge.
		In 1968, Blish moved to Oxford, England where he stayed until dying of lung cancer in 1975.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/blish/blish.htm (136 words)

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