James Blish Books

Book by Blish, James

Essef - 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. And the pantropists didn't stop there. Education, thoughts, ancestors and the world itself were changed, because the Adapted Men were produced to live and thrive in the alien environments found only in space. They were crucial to a daring plan to colonize the universe.

In the year 2794, the greatest civilisation in Earth's history, ravaged by over-population and lack of food, faces almost certain destruction. A handful of men and women struggle desperately to avert the coming holocaust, but they seem doomed to failure. And even if they succeed, Earth will never be the same again . . .

Features 27 stories adapted from Star Trek's landmark first season.

The famous skyline still stood, the skyscrapers still towered—it was New York City—a million miles from earth!In a millennium of anti-death pills and spindizzy fields, earth's cities one by one leave the worn-out planet to find new wealth among unknown stars. . . .

Dolph had found the secret of anti-gravity and now the solar system was his to explore. In his homemade spaceship he soared through the star-studded blackness of outer space. It was all systems go until the power tubes burned out during the landing on Mars. Dolph was now the first man marooned on a strange planet...

A bored weapons entrepreneur enlists the greatest black magician of all time to perform a magical feat of stupendous proportions, and only one man--a simple Italian monk--feels the imminent danger. But the holy man must stand and watch helplessly as the magician unleashes the most powerful demons of Hell onto an unsuspecting world.

A novel about a practitioner of witchcraft who is asked to use his powers to kill a powerful politician

Contents:· Science Fiction the Hard Way · Robert A. W. Lowndes · in · Citadel of Thought · ss Stirring Science Stories Feb ’41 · The Box · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49 · There Shall Be No Darkness · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’50 · Surface Tension [Lavon] · na The Seedling Stars, James Blish, Gnome, 1956; revised from “Sunken Universe”, Super Science Stories May ’42 and “Surface Tension”, Galaxy Aug ’52. · Testament of Andros · nv Future Jan ’53 · Common Time · ss Science Fiction Quarterly Aug ’53 · Beep · nv Galaxy Feb ’54 · A Work of Art [“Art-Work”] · nv Science Fiction Stories Jul ’56 · This Earth of Hours · nv F&SF Jun ’59 · The Oath · nv F&SF Oct ’60 · How Beautiful with Banners · ss Orbit 1, ed. Damon Knight, Berkley Medallion, 1966 · A Style in Treason [expanded from “A Hero’s Life”, Impulse Mar ’66] · nv Galaxy Jun ’70 · Probapossible Prolegomena to Ideareal History · William Atheling, Jr. · aw Foundation May ’78

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