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The works of James Blish


 * __James Blish__** By Ambrianna Echols



James Blish was an amazing, outstanding person.

He was born James Benjamin Blish on May 23,1921 in East Orange, New Jersey. He studied microbiology so it is common in his stories to read about cells and science. James was married to a woman named Virginia Kidd from 1947 to1963. He lived in Milford, Pennsylvania until the mid 60s. He first published a story was in 1940. After his career of writing continuously grew until he became a professional writer, James was the first author to write short-story collections based on the t.v. series "Star Trek". During his career, a reviewer from the New York Times commented on his book "which is Three" that it was "one more proof that science-fiction is really growing up". Also, a reviewer in the Times Book Review said his book "Earth man Come Home","surpasses even the high Blish standards, and offers that very rare thing, a wholly new concept of the future. He was a medical technician in the U.S. Army. His most famous stories were the "Okies". James was credited for using the word "gas giant" in his story "Watershed". In his short story,"How Beautiful with Banners", he mentioned things about machines, electromagnets, molecules, and gases.He has an amazing imagination. James Blish died in 1975 of lung cancer shortly after he moved to England to live in Oxford. He was buried in the Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.