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...

A hobo who carried a bindle was known as a bindlestiff. According to James Blish in his novel A Life for the Stars, a bindlestiff was specifically a hobo...

series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively...

introducing ideas not often seen in other authors' juvenile SF. In 1957, James Blish wrote that one reason for Heinlein's success "has been the high grade...

Search of Wonder, says that the term may have originated with author James Blish.: 26  Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot as a narrative...

Michael Winder, based on the short story "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish, which was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories. The film...

Heinlein, The Past Through Tomorrow collection of stories (1939–1962) James Blish, "Surface Tension" (1952) (Book 3 of The Seedling Stars (1957) Tom Godwin...

historical novel written in 1964 by American writer James Blish. This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Knowledge (1958-1971)...

childishness of man, the only form of life that refuses to grow up." James Blish gave the collection an unfavorable review, saying the stories "are all...

stills. Many of Bantam's Star Trek releases remained in print until 1991. James Blish was known to have expressed an extreme dislike for tie-in fiction; however...