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Panther Books, UK. 1976. First UK paperback edition. 318 pages. Hailed on the front cover as "The astonishing novel based on Roger Bacon - Heretic, Occultist, Genius" This is a superb copy with a tight, spotless spine, sharp, glitzy wrappers and spotlessly clean pages. A wonderful, tight, unread copy. VERY FINE.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 July 30, 1975) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels, and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies. Blish was a member of the Futurians.[1] His first published stories appeared in Super Science Stories and Amazing Stories. Blish wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr. His other pen names included Donald Laverty, John MacDougal, and Arthur Lloyd Merlyn. (Wikipedia)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------James Blish (1921-1975) US author whose early career in sf followed a pattern typical of the generation whose early careers coincided with World War Two. He became involved in sf Fandom during the 1930s, and was an early member of the well-known New York fan group the Futurians, where he became friendly with such writers as Damon Knight and C M Kornbluth. His first short story, "Emergency Refueling", was published in Super Science Stories for March 1940. He studied microbiology at Rutgers, graduating in 1942, and was then drafted, serving as a medical laboratory technician in the US Army. In 1945-1946 he carried out postgraduate work in zoology at Columbia University, abandoning this to become a writer. He was married to Virginia Kidd 1947-1963 and then, from 1964 until his death, to Judith Ann Lawrence. Three of his early short stories, two of them collaborations, were written under the pseudonyms Donald Laverty, John MacDougal and Arthur Merlyn. (The Science Fiction Encyclopaedia).
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