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analog science fact & fiction (british edition) issues from 1963.
note that one has a story by james blish, who went on to novelise the original star trek series !
from my grandfather's scifi collection :)
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[...] a raven-headed angel with a bright sword, astride a black wolf [...]
James Blish, from 'Black Easter'
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Get Out of My Sky and There Shall Be No Darkness by James Blish, cover by Peter Elson (1980)
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Moodboard of Catholic priests hanging out with dinosaurs in outer space
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Lou Feck, cover illustration for Star Trek 4 (with detail), edited by James Blish (Bantam Books, 1971).
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TBT to four years ago when the events of this Richard Powers cover happened.
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I bought more paperbacks.
(Also I got the Peter F. Hamilton books entirely based on enjoying Pandora's Star like twenty years ago and completely managed to not realize there's another book between The Dreaming Void and The Evolutionary Void.)
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Spock Must Die has a lot of problems, but Blish’s unintentional ability to make sleep-deprived me giggle at random scenes is not one of them
Also, a little doodle, because I couldn’t get Kirk’s face out of my head
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The Duplicated Man (James Blish and Robert Lowndes)
"The central premise of this novel concerns a cloning device that requires six different people, one for each duplicate to be created, to be hooked into the machine. Turns out while the memories are copied the personalities and appearances are affected by the subjective views of the various individuals. E.g., one copy is actually a bit shorter and more cowardly than the original because that's how its creator perceived the original while another due to her hero worship was a physically and mentally perfected version of the original."
EarthWorld (Jacqueline Rayner)
"Synopsis: "Anji Kapoor has just had the worst week of her entire life, and things aren't getting any better. She should be back at her desk, not travelling through time and space in a police box with a couple of strange men.
The Doctor (Strange Man No. 1) is supposed to be returning her to Soho 2001 AD. So quite why there are dinosaurs outside, Anji isn't sure. Sad sixties refugee Fitz (Strange Man No. 2) seems to think they're either in prehistoric times or on a parallel Earth. And the Doctor is probably only pretending to know what's going on — because if he really knew, surely he would have mentioned the homicidal triplet princesses, the teen terrorists, the deadly android doubles (and triples) and the hosts of mad robots?
Anji's never going to complain about Monday mornings in the office again… "
Why it's Stranger: The setting alone is uncannily bizarre -- a theme park on one of Jupiter's moons devoted to Earth history, with research drawn from mistranslations, myths, and popular fiction. Sinister androids populate the place, and everyone is hiding the most terrible secrets. Meanwhile, Fitz Kreiner is having an identity crisis about being a clone, which is only made worse when he has to battle an Elvis impersonator to the death."
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Four Penguin SF novels with cover art by David Pelham.
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Short Story Tournament
SURFACE TENSION by James Blish (1952) (link)
What Man can dream, Man can do...
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS by Ray Bradbury (1950) (link) - tw: death
Eight-one, tick-tock, eight-one o'clock, off to school, off to work, run, run, eight-one! But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels. It was raining outside. The weather box on the front door sang quietly: "Rain, rain, go away; umbrellas, raincoats for today. .." And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing.
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James Blish - Black Easter or Faust Aleph-Null. French edition (NéO, 1983). Cover art by Jean-Michel Nicollet.
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This angel appeared as a hart and was past them in a single bound, its tail streaming fire like a comet.
James Blish, from 'Black Easter'
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Where it all started...
My winter reading!
I finally managed to get 1st edition copies of the famed Star Trek Readers, published in the late ’60s and early ’70s. My mother had copies when I was a kid, and they were among the first fictional stories I ever read.
The content varies slightly from the broadcast episodes, which apparently drew the ire of fans at the time. In defense of the British writer James Blish, he…
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I had all of these Star Trek books by Hugo Award-winning novelist James Blish, which first saw print in 1967 while The Original Series was still being broadcast.
Star Trek 1-11 were short (15-20 pages) adaptations of the television episodes, based on early draft scripts. That is why there were often major differences between what we saw on the screen and what was on the printed page.
The stories in each volume were not in presented in any particular order; you could lead-off (in later volumes) with a third season episode, followed by one from the first season.
Blish reportedly did not see any episodes of the show until after he moved to England in 1969, which is the same year the show began being broadcast there. It later became apparent which episodes he had seen, because the adaptations were a bit more faithful.
Even though it wasn’t acknowledged at the time, as of Star Trek 6, published in 1972, Blish collaborated with his wife, J.A. Lawrence, and his mother-in-law, Muriel Lawrence, in writing the adaptations. He also supposedly stopped writing the adaptations completely by Star Trek 10, although he continued to receive sole writing credit. It wasn’t until Star Trek 12 ( a volume I never got, for reasons I don’t remember), which was published after Blish’s death in 1975, that J.A. Lawrence was credited as co-writer.
Blish wrote the first original Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die!, in 1970. It was a sequel of sorts to the first season episodes The Enemy Within and Errand of Mercy. I was disappointed with Spock Must Diel for a variety of reasons, which I won’t go into in case someone wants to read it for themselves.
One thing from the novel I will mention, however, is Blish has Scotty modifying the transporter using tachyons so that someone can be teleported over unimaginable (even for Star Trek) distances. It was a gimmick that, thankfully, was never used again.
Until Star Trek (2009), and even more ridiculously in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).
The most memorable thing for me about the Blish Star Trek adaptations is that he christened Jim Kirk’s rather unique form of fighting as “space karate.”
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Lou Feck, cover illustration for Star Trek 6, edited by James Blish (Bantam, 1974).
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