James Blish

James Blish

14 Series

James Blish (1921-1975) was a renowned science fiction and fantasy author. He is best known for his Cities in Flight and After Such Knowledge series. His works significantly contributed to the genre.

James Blish's "They Shall Have Stars," the first book in the Cities in Flight series, is set in the future year of 2018. Humanity constructs an immense bridge to Jupiter, which is thirty miles high, eight miles wide, and continuously expanding. The purpose of this colossal structure remains a mystery known only to one man. The revelation of this secret may hold the most tormenting knowledge in the universe.

Cities in Flight

They Shall Have Stars / Year 2018!

(1956)

Earthman, Come Home

(1956)

The Triumph of Time / A Clash of Cymbals

(1958)

A Life for the Stars

(1962)

After Such Knowledge

A Case of Conscience

(1958)

Doctor Mirabilis

(1964)

Black Easter

(1968)

The Day After Judgment

(1971)

Heart Stars

The Star Dwellers

(1961)

Mission to the Heart Stars

(1965)

Haertel Scholium

So Close to Home

(1961)

Welcome to Mars

(1967)

Anywhen

(1970)

Midsummer Century

(1972)

The Quincunx of Time

(1973)

Star Trek Collections

The Star Trek Reader

(2024)

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1

(1991)

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 2

(1991)

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 3

(1991)

Star Trek: TOS Adaptations

Star Trek 1

(1967)

Star Trek 2

(1968)

Star Trek 3

(1969)

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)

Standalone Novels

Jack of Eagles

(1952)

The Warriors of Day

(1953)

The Frozen Year / Fallen Star

(1957)

Vor

(1958)

The duplicated man

(1959)

Titan's Daughter

(1961)

The Night Shapes

(1962)

A Torrent of Faces

(1967)

Giants in the Earth

(1968)

The Vanished Jet

(1968)

And All the Stars a Stage

(1971)

Short Stories/Novellas

The Thing in the Attic

(1954)

One-Shot

(1955)

Short Story Collections

The Seedling Stars

(1957)

Galactic Cluster

(1959)

The Testament of Andros

(1965)

Best Science Fiction Stories Of James Blish

(1965)

The Best of James Blish

(1979)

Get Out Of My Sky and There Shall be No Darkness

(1980)

Works of Art

(1993)

A Work of Art and Other Stories

(1993)

With All of Love

(1995)

A Dusk of Idols, and Other Stories

(1996)

In This World, or Another

(2003)

Flights of Eagles

(2009)

Non-Fiction

The Issue at Hand

(1964)(As: William Atheling Jr.)

More Issues At Hand

(1970)(As: William Atheling Jr.)

The Tale That Wags the God

(1987)

Star Trek Adventures

Spock Must Die!

(1970)

Star Trek: The New Voyages

(1976)(By: Eleanor Arnason,Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Spock, Messiah!

(1976)(By: Theodore R. Cogswell)

The Price of the Phoenix

(1977)(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Planet of Judgment

(1977)(By: Joe Haldeman)

Star Trek: The New Voyages 2

(1977)(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Mudd's Angels

(1978)(By: J.A. Lawrence)

Vulcan!

(1978)(By: Kathleen Sky)

The Starless World

(1978)(By: Gordon Eklund)

Trek to Madworld

(1979)(By: Stephen Goldin)

World Without End

(1979)(By: Joe Haldeman)

The Fate of the Phoenix

(1979)(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Devil World

(1979)(By: Gordon Eklund)

Perry's Planet

(1980)(By: Jack C. Haldeman II)

The Galactic Whirlpool

(1980)(By: David Gerrold)

Death's Angel

(1981)(By: Kathleen Sky)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction (with Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Roger Dee, Anthony Gilmore, Robert Hoskins, Richard Rein Smith)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI

(2016)(By: Robert Sheckley)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV

(2018)(By: Robert Sheckley)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X

(2018)(With: Poul Anderson,Clifford D. Simak,Fritz Leiber,Harry Harrison,Roger Dee,Anthony Gilmore,Robert Hoskins,Richard Rein Smith)

Anthologies

6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction

(1954)

Novelets of Science Fiction

(1963)

Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures

(1967)

Backdrop of Stars

(1968)

Science Against Man

(1970)

Ten Tomorrows

(1973)

Bug-Eyed Monsters

(1974)

Human Machines: An Anthology of Stories about Cyborgs

(1975)

Antigrav

(1975)

The Late Great Future

(1976)

Beyond Tomorrow

(1976)

Get Out of My Sky

(1980)

The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century

(1980)

Supermen

(2002)

The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

(2009)

Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two

(2011)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X

(2018)

Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System

(2020)

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