Order of James Blish Books
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
Star Trek 1 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 2 | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 3 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 4 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 5 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 6 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 7 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 8 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 9 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 10 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 11 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek 12 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
More Issues At Hand | (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 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Spock, Messiah! | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Price of the Phoenix | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Planet of Judgment | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Mudd's Angels | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Vulcan! | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Starless World | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Trek to Madworld | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
World Without End | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Fate of the Phoenix | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Devil World | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Perry's Planet | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Death's Angel | (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 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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.