James Blish | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish


00:00:47 1 Early life
00:03:08 2 Career
00:03:54 2.1 Pantropy (1942–1956)
00:05:15 2.2 iCities in Flight/i (1950–1958)
00:07:20 2.3 iAfter Such Knowledge/i (1958–1971)
00:08:52 2.4 iStar Trek/i (1967–1977)
00:10:36 3 Literary criticism and legacy
00:12:46 4 Honors, awards and recognition
00:13:14 4.1 Awards and nominations
00:13:58 4.2 Posthumous Awards and nominations
00:14:33 4.3 Guest of Honor
00:14:52 5 Bibliography
00:15:37 5.1 Short fiction and novellas (1935–1986)
00:16:04 5.1.1 iThe Planeteer/i (1935–36)
00:18:23 5.1.2 iSuper Science Stories/i (1940)
00:20:01 5.1.3 iStirring Science Stories/i (1941)
00:20:34 5.1.4 iScience Fiction Quarterly/i (1941)
00:21:03 5.1.5 iCosmic Stories/i (1941)
00:23:05 5.1.6 iFuture/i (1941–1953)
00:23:51 5.1.7 iAstonishing Stories/i (1941)
00:24:31 5.1.8 iSuper Science and Fantastic Stories/i (1944)
00:26:33 5.1.9 iScience*Fiction/i (1946)



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James Benjamin Blish (23 May 1921 – 30 July 1975) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels, and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. He is credited with creating the term gas giant to refer to large planetary bodies.
Blish was a member of the Futurians. His first published stories appeared in Super Science Stories and Amazing Stories.
Blish wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. His other pen names included: Donald Laverty, John MacDougal, and Arthur Lloyd Merlyn.