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  • James Blish: Golden Age Space Opera Tales

    by James Blish ...
    Series series Fantasy and Science Fiction Short Story Collection
    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, and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies.Blish was a member of the Futurians. His first published stories appeared in ... Read more

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  • A Case of Conscience

    by James Blish ...
    A space-traveling Jesuit priest confronts a moral but godless alien race in this Hugo Award–winning novel by the author of the Cities in Flight saga.Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn't feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system—until he is sent to Lithia.The reptilian inhabitants of this distant ... Read more

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  • Cities in Flight

    by James Blish ...
    From the Hugo Award–winning author, the classic millennia-spanning epic in one volume: "A wholly new concept of the far future." — The New York TimesOriginally published in four volumes, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a ... Read more

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  • The James Blish Collection. Cities in Flight series. Illustrated

    They Shall Have Stars, A Life for the Stars

    by James Blish ...
    The James Blish Collection: Cities in Flight brings together the first two installments of one of science fiction’s most ambitious and philosophically rich sagas. With They Shall Have Stars and A Life for the Stars, Blish lays the foundation for a future where entire cities break free from Earth and roam the galaxy in search of survival, opportunity, and meaning. In They Shall Have Stars, Blish ... Read more

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  • Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1

    by Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, James Blish, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Alan Edward Nourse, Clifford D. Simak, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frederik Pohl, August Derleth, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, Carl Jacobi, Philip José Farmer, Ada Milenkovic Brown, B. W. Clough, F. Marion Crawford, Lillian Csernica, William R. Eakin, Michael M. Jones, Paul Kincaid, Shariann Lewitt, Edward J. McFadden III, William F. Nolan, Chuck Rothman, Clark Ashton Smith, Jean-Louis Trudel, Jamie Wild, David Niall Wilson, Robert F. Young ...
    Series Book 1 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish; 'To Serve A Prince' by B.W. Clough; 'Red Nails' by Robert E. Howard; 'Your Name Is Eve' by ... Read more

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  • Against the Stone Beasts

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Blish ...
    James Blish's Against the Stone Beasts launches Andreson from a shabby surrealist exhibition into a breathtakingly wrong universe, where paintings prove to be windows and a single touch hurls him into a winged civilization hanging beneath a stone sky. There he finds not only alien beauty and first-contact wonder, but a perilous love and a war fought across impossible dimensions. The Varese, ... Read more

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  • Mistake Inside

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Blish ...
    James Blish's Mistake Inside opens with a jarring slip between realities: a cat, a bewildered man in a tuxedo, and an astronomer named Dr. Hugh Tracy are swept into a world where time, magic, and politics collide. Furious over his wife's suspected lover, Hugh is suddenly transported from his modern life into Outside, an Elizabethan-looking city where newspapers, horse traffic, and visible sorcery ... Read more

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  • King of the Hill

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Blish ...
    Colonel Hal Gascoigne is alone aboard a U.S. bomb satellite when voices, phantom crewmen, and shifting orders begin to surround him. As he decodes a mysterious teletype message, he learns the unthinkable: he has been ordered to bomb Washington, D.C., and perhaps even his own home, while the station's systems continue toward launch. Terrified that he may be losing his mind, yet determined to stop ... Read more

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  • Black Easter

    by James Blish ...
    Theron Ware is a renowned scholar and Doctor of Divinity. He is also secretly one of the world's great Black magicians. And when a rich megalomaniac industrialist, Baines, enlists his aid in summoning a demon from Hell to assassinate the governor of California (in an "excess of horror"), Ware has no scruples about accepting the assignment. But this terrible and devilish deed is only a warm-up, a ... Read more

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  • The Tale that Wags the God

    by James Blish ...
    This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music—more fantastic than any fiction ) to the autobiographical "A Science Fiction Coming of Age" (focused on Blish's childhood), and a ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X

    by Fritz Leiber, Roger Dee, Harry Harrison, Poul Anderson, James Blish, Clifford Simak, Richard Smith, Anthony Gilmore, Robert Hoskins ...
    The tenth amazing volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction! Yesterday House, by Fritz Leiber Wailing Wall, by Roger Dee The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson The Thing in the Attic, by James Blish The Street that Wasn’t There, by Clifford Simak The Snare, by Richard Smith The Repairman, by Harry Harrison The Bluff of the Hawk, by Anthony Gilmore The Problem Makers, by Robert Hoskins ... Read more

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  • The Thing in the Attic

    by James Blish ...
    Illustrated by Paul Orban, Murat Ukray ...
    Suddenly, Honath lost his temper. "Lose it, then!" he shouted. "Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again, and continue to learn, from our own experience. Spokesman, you are an old man, but there are still some of us who haven't forgotten what curiosity means!""Quiet!" the Spokesman said. "We have heard enough. We call on Alaskon the Navigator." ... Read more

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