8 Books & 3 Stories by James Blish
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Overview: James Benjamin Blish (1921 – 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
And All the Stars a Stage (1971)
There are too many men in a world governed by women. They’re bored and disillusioned and often resort to ‘suicide missions’ – jobs in experimental space research. Jorn applies for such a job, is selected and trained as a navigator for the huge ship Javelin, the first to implement the recently discovered faster-than-light Evrak Effect. Before the Effect is tested, however, it is discovered that life will be extinct within nine years; the sun is burning up, preparing to explode. The Evrak Effect will save a small percentage of mankind, take civilisation to a yet unknown planet. Production on new ships is given priority, the ruthless selection of passengers begins. Twenty-five billion people will be left behind. Led by Javelin, thirty ships wander in space through many light years of promises, lost hope and death for the original crew and passengers. But life does survive, children grow and learn, to inherit the beginning of another world, another promise. James Blish has written a compelling novel of gigantic moral problems and of people who learn to cope with their own limitations in order to deal with them.
ESPer aka Jack of Eagles (1952)
Danny Caiden’s on the run–from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department, and the Mob. Only recently, Danny had been an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny’s powers are just beginning. But someone else wants him too: an evil group of preternatural men bent on world domination. They’ll stop at nothing until they capture Danny..or destroy him. Why? Becuase only Danny has the power to sabotage their diabolic tyranny. In the final, frenzied battle, Danny must summon all his powers, or sacrifice himself–and all mankind–to satanic slavery forever.
Galactic Cluster (1959) SSC
Contains :
Tomb Tapper
King of the Hill
Common Time
A Work of Art
To Pay the Piper
Nor Iron Bars
Beep
This Earth of Hours
The Best of James Blish (1979) SSC
Contents:
· Science Fiction the Hard Way · Robert A. W. Lowndes · in
· Citadel of Thought · ss Stirring Science Stories Feb ’41
· The Box · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49
· There Shall Be No Darkness · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’50
· Surface Tension [Lavon] · na The Seedling Stars, James Blish, Gnome, 1956; revised from “Sunken Universe”, Super Science Stories May ’42 and “Surface Tension”, Galaxy Aug ’52.
· Testament of Andros · nv Future Jan ’53
· Common Time · ss Science Fiction Quarterly Aug ’53
· Beep · nv Galaxy Feb ’54
· A Work of Art [“Art-Work”] · nv Science Fiction Stories Jul ’56
· This Earth of Hours · nv F&SF Jun ’59
· The Oath · nv F&SF Oct ’60
· How Beautiful with Banners · ss Orbit 1, ed. Damon Knight, Berkley Medallion, 1966
· A Style in Treason [expanded from “A Hero’s Life”, Impulse Mar ’66] · nv Galaxy Jun ’70
· Probapossible Prolegomena to Ideareal History · William Atheling, Jr. · aw Foundation May ’78
The Night Shapes (1962)
The continent lay before them, vast areas of it unexplored, its forests, plains, jungles and mountains teeming with forms of life unknown to modern man. Here the witch doctors reigned supreme, using their inexplicable and remarkable powers on men and beasts. The purpose of the safari was mysterious, its members an oddly assorted group of people, unlikely to have any same objective in common.
The Warriors of Day (1953)
Tipton Bond was a man who lived for challenges – and Earth had no more challenges for him. A stranger and an enigma to both planets. He was also the embodiment of a prophecy – a legend they called The Sword Of Mahrt. His twin forces of darkness and evil alone could halt the onslaught of the gigantic, powerful aliens – The Warriors Of Day.
Giants – almost semi-gods the Warriors threatened to engulf all other planets in their path, as they swept inward from the outermost reaches of the galaxy. Their most deadly weapon was the Wild Star – a runaway sun, almost pure neutronium, set on a collision course with Xota and eventually Earth…
Could the legend of Mahrt forestall such powerful aliens?
Titan’s Daughter (1961)
The tetraploids, giant men and women created by genetic experiment, only wanted to live their lives in peace, but they had to live in the world of the jealous ‘normals’ who gathered in screaming mobs with murder in their hearts.
Sena, the heroine of this remarkable science fiction novel, is a tetraploid giantess whose youth would last more than a century, who looked with wonder at the toy bridges and houses of normal men and women who regarded her with fear and revulsion. Beautiful, defenceless Sena was the first of a new race, but would she be allowed to live . . . ?
VOR (1958)
The glowing ovoid plummeted downward, the whole sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. A supersonic bang broke over the forest, but the thing was already gliding down to Earth. As the ovoid settled in among the trees, the entire forest burst into flames. A thin black line appeared and etched a perfect circle on the side of the metal egg, then thickened into a door. The air was rent by a searing hiss. Slowly, the strange being – soon to be known to all mankind as VOR – began to emerge . . .
and 3 Short Stories:
Bridge (1952) SS
The City that was the World (1969) SS
The Thing in the Attic (1954) SS
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