James Blish

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cities in Flight

1 - Cities in Flight (Apr-1982)
2 - Cities in Flight Vol. 2 (Jun-1991)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Volume 2: 25th Anniversary Edition ()
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Volume 3 ()
Spock Must Die! (Feb-1970)
Star Trek 1 (1973)
Star Trek 9 (Jun-1973)
Star Trek 12 (Nov-1977)
The Classic Episodes (Sep-1991)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Testament of Andros

    A story that plummets into the psyche of a man. Peering through shadows of reality a man grasps for understanding. Unlike anything you've read before. A cutting edge story of desperation, love and the search for identity.First appearance was in the J...

  • One-Shot

    You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do?...

  • Vor

    The glowing ovoid plummeted downward, the whole sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. A supersonic bang broke over the forest, but the thing was already gliding down to Earth. As the ovoid settled in among the t...

  • A Case of Conscience

    • / Science Fiction
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    Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of alie...

  • This Earth of Hours

    in There Will Be War, Vol. III: Blood and Iron
    • / Science Fiction
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    From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...

  • The Seedling Stars

    You didn't make an Adapted Man with just a wave of the wand. It involved an elaborate constellation of techniques, known collectively as pantropy, that changed the human pattern in a man's shape and chemistry before he was born. But the pantropists...

  • The Duplicated Man

    Paul Danton was a member of a subversive political party which had an answer: make peace with Venus. But the only way to peace was through the overthrow of Security. And Danton had found the one weapon which would make Security’s fall possible: the...

  • Welcome to Mars

  • A Torrent of Faces

    • / General Fiction
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    The time is the end of the 28th century. A world government is attempting to deal with the problems created by a population approaching one TRILION souls. Living space is at a premium; every possible square foot of arable land is in use; and there st...



  • Spock Must Die!

    Star Trek

  • And All the Stars a Stage

  • Galactic Cluster

  • Midsummer Century

  • Star Trek 8

  • Star Trek 1

    • / Space Opera
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    Star Trek

  • Star Trek 9

    Star Trek

  • Star Trek 4

  • The Star Trek Reader I

  • The Star Trek Reader II



  • The Star Trek Reader III

  • Star Trek 12

    Star Trek

    Bantam, 1977. Mass market paperback. 5 stories from the original TV show. Episodes include: Patterns of Force, The Gamesters of Triskelion, And the Children Shall Lead, The Corbomite Maneuver, Shore Leave....

  • The Star Trek Reader IV

    James Blish was a science fiction writer who wrote over 27 novels, most notably the Cities in Flight series, and A Case of Conscience, for which he won a Hugo Award. He also was a highly respected critic, and his criticism in collected in the books T...

  • Star Trek 7

    Journeying to far-off worlds, the crew members of the Enterprise meet men who can live forever, other men who die at the old age of twenty-nine, a machine with the power to raise the dead, and a woman capable of toppling empires with her tears...

  • The Best of James Blish

    ONE OF THE WRITERS WHO TURNED SCIENCE FICTION FROM PULP ENTERTAINMENT INTO A LITERARY CATEGORY WITH BROAD AND LASTING APPEAL, JAMES BLISH IS AT HIS PEAK IN ... THERE SHALL BE NO DARKNESS A werewolf can be a very awkward houseguest... COMMON TI...

  • Star Trek 6

  • More Light

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • Star Trek 5

    The Enterprise blazes new star trails to danger as Kirk, SPock and the rest encounter - an asylum planet where the mad rule - a universe with a total population of one - race warfare to the death whiteblack against blackwhite - paradise with a most u...

  • Star Trek 3

  • Titan's Daughter

    GODDESS...OR FREAK? Aside from being eight feet tall, blonde blue-eyed Sena was unusually beautiful--and extraordinarily unusual. She was a Tetra, one of the handful of people belonging to the super- race genetically engineered by Dr. Hyatt of Du...



  • Star Dwellers

  • Cities in Flight

    Cities in Flight - 1

    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 Times   Originally published in four volumes, Cities in Flight brings together the famed “O...

  • Black Easter

  • The Day After Judgement

  • Dr. Mirabilis

  • Jack of Eagles

  • Fallen Star

  • Anywhen

  • Night Shapes

  • Quincunx of Time



  • Day of the Dove

    This title was previously published as "Star Trek 11," as part of these series of paperbacks adapting episodes of the original "Star Trek" TV series. Inexplicably, the publisher retitled this printing. It contains James Blish's adaptions of the episo...

  • The Devil's Day

    A cloistered monk desperately tries to close the Pandora's box opened by a mischievous weapons dealer who has recruited a powerful black magician to stir up trouble for humanity on the eve of Judgement Day...

  • Cities in Flight Vol. 2

    Cities in Flight - 2

    Long out of print, the science fiction masterpiece by Hugo Award winning writer James Blish

    Originally published as four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James ...

  • After Such Knowledge

    A volume containing James Blish's trilogy, "Dr Mirabilis", "Black Easter, the Day After Judgement" and "A Case of Conscience". They include such diverse themes as the tormented visions of a 13th-century prophet and the apocalyptic night when God is v...

  • The Classic Episodes

    Star Trek

  • A Work of Art

  • Dusk of Idols

  • In This World, or Another

    James Blish (1921-1975) was one of those rare authors who sought to fuse the imagination and ideas of science fiction with the language and power of mainstream fiction. He wasn't rare for attempting this combination, he was rare because he succeeded....

  • Flights of Eagles

  • Bridge

    This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to ...



  • Tomb Tapper

    James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England a...

  • The Issue at Hand

    For many years, hiding under a cloak of anonymity, the most penetrating critic of the field of magazine science fiction was known as "William Atheling, Jr." It soon became a challenge to guess his real identity. And that was no easy game, for Athelin...

  • More Issues at Hand

    James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on st...

  • The Tale that Wags the God

    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" (mo...

  • Three for Tomorrow

    Three short novels by some of science fiction's greatest writers - Robert Silverberg, Robert Zelazny, and James Blish, with an Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. Each writes a short novel on a theme proposed by Clarke: With increaing technology go...

  • King of the Hill

    A madman can be prevented from throwing on bomb on Earth -- but what if he's in space? Introduction by John Betancourt....

  • Mistake Inside

    One minute Dr. Hugh Tracy, astronomer, had been charging at the door of Jeremy Wright’s apartment, an automatic in his hand and blind rage in his heart. As his shoulder had splintered the panel, the world had revolved once around him, like a scene-...

  • The Thing In The Attic

    • / Science Fiction
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    It is written that after the Giants came to Tellura from the far stars, they abode a while, and looked upon the surface of the land, and found it wanting, and of evil omen. Therefore did they make men to live always in the air and in the sunlight,...

  • How Beautiful with Banners

    in The Late Great Future
    • / General Fiction
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

Award-Winning Books by James Blish

A Case of Conscience
1959 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Blish has published 58 books.

James Blish does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mistake Inside, was published in February 2023.

The first book by James Blish, Testament of Andros, was published in January 1953.

Yes. James Blish has 1 series.
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