Blish, James

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Name (Hebrew)
בליש, ג'מס, 1921-1975
Name (Latin)
Blish, James
Name (Cyrilic)
Блиш, Джеймс
Other forms of name
Atheling, William
בליש, ג'יימס, 1921-1975
Date of birth
1921-05-23
Date of death
1975-07-30
Field of activity
Criticism
Science fiction
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 111470216
Wikidata: Q248867
Library of congress: n 79053667
OCoLC: oca00286832
Sources of Information
  • His Jack of eagles, 1952.
  • Ketterer, D. Imprisoned in a tesseract, c1987:CIP t.p. (James Blish) galley (James Benjamin Blish; b. 5/23/21; d. 7/30/75)
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Wikipedia description:

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 and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel A Case of Conscience won the Hugo Award. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies. 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.

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