Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He married literary agent Virginia Kidd in 1947. He worked for the Tobacco Institute from 1962-1968. In 1968, he emigrated to England. Between 1967 and his death in 1975, he became the first author to write short story collections based on the TV series Star Trek. In total, he wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the series, as well as an original novel, Spock Must Die! in 1970. He died midway through writing Star Trek 12; his second wife, J. A. Lawrence, completed the book, and later completed the adaptations in the volume Mudd's Angels.
James Blish
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Born | 23 May 1921 |
Died | 30 July 1975 |
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James Blish
×CloseAmerican science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
Born | 23 May 1921 |
Died | 30 July 1975 |
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American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, general, collectionID:STnov, Fiction, general, English Science fiction, English fiction, History and criticism, Star Trek fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Short stories, Space ships, collectionID:STreader, Children's fiction, English Short stories, Fantasy fiction, Interplanetary voyages in fiction, Interstellar travel, Life on other planets, Science fiction, American, Space ships in fiction, Addresses, essays, lectures, American Fantasy fictionPeople
Chekov, Humans, James Blish, James T. Kirk (Fictitious character) (2233-2371), Kirk, Leonard McCoy (Fictitious character), McCoy, Scotty, Spock, Spock Mr. (Fictitious character), Sulu, UhuraTime
The Future, The future, Written in 1967 but timing is vague. Could be any year from the present to the near future.ID Numbers
- OLID: OL34434A
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- Wikidata: Q248867
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- William Atheling Jr.
- James Benjamin Blish
- James Blish
- William Atheling, Jr.
- William Atheling
- James Blish,
- James [] Blish
- Blish, James,
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