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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively...
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    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...
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    Heinlein, The Past Through Tomorrow collection of stories (1939–1962) James Blish, "Surface Tension" (1952) (Book 3 of The Seedling Stars (1957) Tom Godwin...
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  • 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...
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  • Black Easter (category Novels by James Blish)
    Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth...
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    science fiction short story 1965 – James T. Grady Award of the American Chemical Society (now called the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting...
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  • the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies from 1959 to 1961, with James Blish, Poul Anderson, Philip José Farmer, Anthony Boucher, John Brunner, Brian...
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