James Blish was an author of science fiction and fantasy. The author was born in 1921 and passed away in 1975. He is best known as the author of the Cities in Flight series and the After Such Knowledge series.

His first published work was featured in magazines like Super Science Stories and Amazing Stories, but he would eventually move to novels. Blish won the Hugo Award for the first novel in the After Such Knowledge series, A Case of Conscience. In addition to his work under his own name, Blish also wrote under the pen names of Donald Laverty, John MacDougal, and Arthur Lloyd Merlyn. He also worked extensively as a literary critic.

Publication Order of Cities in Flight Books

They Shall Have Stars / Year 2018!(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Earthman, Come Home(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Triumph of Time / A Clash of Cymbals(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Life for the Stars(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of After Such Knowledge Books

A Case of Conscience(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Doctor Mirabilis(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Black Easter(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Day After Judgment(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Heart Stars Books

The Star Dwellers(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mission to the Heart Stars(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Haertel Scholium Books

So Close to Home(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Welcome to Mars(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anywhen(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Midsummer Century(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Quincunx of Time(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Star Trek Collections

The Star Trek Reader(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Books

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 2(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 3(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Star Trek: TOS Adaptations Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Jack of Eagles(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Warriors of Day(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Frozen Year / Fallen Star(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vor(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The duplicated man(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Titan's Daughter(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Night Shapes(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Torrent of Faces(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Giants in the Earth(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vanished Jet(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
And All the Stars a Stage(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Thing in the Attic(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One-Shot(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Seedling Stars(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Galactic Cluster(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Testament of Andros(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best Science Fiction Stories Of James Blish(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of James Blish(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Get Out Of My Sky and There Shall be No Darkness(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Works of Art(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Work of Art and Other Stories(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
With All of Love(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dusk of Idols, and Other Stories(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In This World, or Another(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flights of Eagles(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Issue at Hand (As: William Atheling Jr.)(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
More Issues At Hand (As: William Atheling Jr.)(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tale That Wags the God(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Star Trek Adventures Books

Spock Must Die!(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek: The New Voyages (By: Eleanor Arnason,Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spock, Messiah! (By: Theodore R. Cogswell)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Price of the Phoenix (By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Planet of Judgment (By: Joe Haldeman)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mudd's Angels (By: J.A. Lawrence)(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vulcan! (By: Kathleen Sky)(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Starless World (By: Gordon Eklund)(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trek to Madworld (By: Stephen Goldin)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
World Without End (By: Joe Haldeman)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fate of the Phoenix (By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Devil World (By: Gordon Eklund)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Perry's Planet (By: Jack C. Haldeman II)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death's Angel (By: Kathleen Sky)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books

(with Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Roger Dee, Anthony Gilmore, Robert Hoskins, Richard Rein Smith)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (By: Robert Sheckley)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (By: Robert Sheckley)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (With: Poul Anderson,Clifford D. Simak,Fritz Leiber,Harry Harrison,Roger Dee,Anthony Gilmore,Robert Hoskins,Richard Rein Smith)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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If You Like James Blish Books, You’ll Love…

A Case of Conscience follows a space-traveling priest known as Father Ruiz-Sanchez. He’s a man of faith, but he’s also a scientist and doesn’t have any conflicts in his beliefs. Then he is sent to Lithia, a planet inhabited by repilians. They have no concept of God, literature, or art, but they manage to live in peace. They are logical and only rely on reason in decision making, but there are fears that they may pose a threat to our world. Ruiz-Sanchez is driven by his own understanding of good and evil. Can he do the right thing?

They Shall Have Stars is the first book in the Cities in Flight series. The story, written in 1967, takes place in a distant future of 2018 as man builds a bridge to Jupiter. The bridge is thirty miles high, eight miles wide, and impossibly long, always growing. The question becomes: what is the purpose of this bridge? There is only one man who knows the answer to this question. The answer itself may just be the most tormenting of all the knowledge in the universe.

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