Mission To The Heart Stars
More Issues At Hand
The Day After Judgement
The Duplicated Man (with Robert A. W. Lowndes)
The Issue At Hand
The Night Shapes
The Quincunx Of Time
The Seedling Stars
The Star Dwellers
The Tale That Wags The God
The Warriors Of Day
Titan’s Daughter
Vor
Welcome To Mars!
For
FIVE
forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit
James Blish (1921–1975)
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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ISBN 978 0 575 10406 8
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