James Blish

James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 - Henley-on-Thames, July 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.

Selected bibliography

Cities in Flight

• They Shall Have Stars (1957) (also published under the title Year 2018!)
• A Life for the Stars
• Earthman Come Home (1955) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
• A Clash of Cymbals, sometimes known as The Triumph of Time. (1959)

After Such Knowledge

• A Case of Conscience (first section published in If magazine, 1953, expanded version published 1958)
• Doctor Mirabilis (1964)
• Black Easter or Faust Aleph-null (serialised as Faust aleph-null in If magazine, 1970)
• The Day After Judgement (published in Galaxy magazine in 1970, book publication 1972)

Others

• The Seedling Stars (1957)
• VOR (1958) Avon Publications, Inc., New York, in wrappers (paperback).
• The Night Shapes
• Jack of Eagles
• Welcome to Mars!
• Fallen Star (1957) - Set in the International Geophysical Year of 1958, it tells the story of a disaster-ridden polar expedition that finds a meterorite containing fossil life forms.
• The Quincunx of Time
• Mission to the Heartstars
• Titans' Daughter (also under the title Beanstalk)
• A Torrent of Faces (with Norman L. Knight, 1967)
• Midsummer Century
• Star Trek 1-11 (1967-1975) Novelizations of the scripts of the well-known TV series.
• Spock Must Die (1975) An original Star Trek novel.