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James Blish
James Blish was an American science fiction writer best known for his works in the 1950s and 1960s. He is renowned for his "Cities in Flight" series, which imagines a future where entire cities travel through space. Blish also novelized numerous "Star Trek" episodes, making him one of the first authors to bring the franchise to print. His Hugo Award-winning novel "A Case of Conscience" explores religious and ethical dilemmas on an alien world.
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On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York harbor, Abner Longmans ("One-Shot") Braun was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars. As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular week end for Braun. For one thing, he had brought his family with him—a complete departure from routine—reflecting...
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Honath the Pursemaker was hauled from the nets an hour before the rest of the prisoners, as befitted his role as the arch-doubter of them all. It was not yet dawn, but his captors led him in great bounds through the endless, musky-perfumed orchid gardens, small dark shapes with crooked legs, hunched shoulders, slim hairless tails carried, like his, in concentric spirals wound clockwise. Behind them...
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