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James Blish

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Biography

James Blish (1921-75) James Blish studied microbiology at Rutgers and then served as a medical laboratory technician in the US army during the Second World War. Among his best known books are A Case of Conscience, for which he won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1959, and the Cities in Flight sequence: They Shall Have Stars, A Life for the Stars, Earthman Come Home and A Clash of Cymbals (published in the US as The Triumph of Time). He also wrote almost a dozen books adapting episodes of the Star Trek television series, and the first original spin-off novel, Spock Must Die!

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Essential reading

They Shall Have Stars (1956)
The first book in the Cities In Flight sequence

The Seedling Stars (1957)

A Case of Conscience (1958)
Not Yet Published - coming soon!

Doctor Mirabilis (1964)

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