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WHEN THE SUN EXPLODES...

All life will end. No one will survive the blow-up; except the men and women who crowed into a few starships and fly away into space while there is still time, to look for a new home in the infinite void, a new planet on which to settle.

Jorn, unskilled, unemployed, seemingly a reject from society, finds that he has what it takes to become one of he brave survivors, blasting off in hastily built ships that have never flown before. Jorn and his companions begin a long search, threatened by repeated disasters and despair, but ultimately leading through to an unexpected climax for which one one is prepared...

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, May 1970. The story can also be found in the collections Anywhen (1970) and The Best of James Blish (1979).

In the year 2794 the Earth is ravaged by over-population and lack of food. A new race, the Tritons, have come from the sea to mingle with humans. The only hope for ultimate survival lies in a long-awaited interstellar drive, but all efforts so far have failed.

Contains:

• A Style in Treason
• No Jokes on Mars
• And Some Were Savages
• A Dusk of Idols
• How Beautiful With Banners
• None So Blind
• The Writing of the Rat

Faber & Faber published two versions of this collection. The table of contents shown is from the 1973 revised edition.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by James Blish
• Surface Tension - (1952) - novelette
• Testament of Andros - (1953) - novelette
• Common Time - (1953) - shortstory
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette
• Tomb Tapper - (1956) - novelette
• The Oath - (1960) - novelette
• How Beautiful With Banners - (1966) - shortstory
• We All Die Naked - (1969) - novelette

Various editions have slightly different tables of contents. The one shown here is for the originaly 1959 publication.

Table of Contents:

• Tomb Tapper - (1956) - novelette
• King of the Hill - (1955) - short story
• Common Time - (1953) - short story
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette
• To Pay the Piper - (1956) - short story
• Nor Iron Bars (expanded) - (1957) - novelette
• Beep - (1954) - novelette
• This Earth of Hours - (1959) - novelette

This short story originally appeared in Infinity Science Fiction, November 1955. It can also be found in the collections Galactic Cluster (1959) and A Dusk of Idols and Other Stories (1996).

This short story originally appeared in the Astonishing Stories, September 1941. It can also be found in the anthologies Beyond Human Ken (1952), edited by Judith Merril, Men and Machines (1968), edited by Robert Silverberg, and The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 3, 1941 (1980), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov.

Paul Danton was a member of a subversive political party which had an answer: make peace with Venus. But the only way to peace was through the overthrow of Security. And Danton had found the one weapon which would make Security's fall possible: the long-forgotten duplication machine.

It had been well forgotten, for a machine which could make up to five duplicates of any living person was too dangerous to have around. But now, what if the top members of Security were kidnapped briefly, and then, suddenly there were five of each? No government could endure such chaos.

Expedition into the heart of Africa, finding voodoo and dinosaurs.

Late in the 21st century, a device called the Dirac communicator ^[1] promises instantaneous communication across interstellar distances. This would allow Earth security, headed by one Robin Weinbaum, to keep the peace. Before one of the devices can even reach a far-away system, someone starts producing predictions that suggest they have advance knowledge of Dirac communications.

Eventually it is realized that the new technology incorporates a way of learning about future events. The result is a lengthy discussion of free will versus determinism.

A quincunx can mean a group of trees—and specifically a set of five trees arranged at the vertexes of a pentagon in the manner of the Academy of Plato in Ancient Greece. Robin Weinbaum compares the new technology to being able to look down on time as if it were a set of trees, and determine which one shall grow, and which one wither.

The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction, If, Super Science Stories & Galaxy Science Fiction.

Contents:

• 1 - Seeding Program - [Pantropy] - (1956) - novelette (variant of A Time to Survive)
• 63 - The Thing in the Attic - [Pantropy] - (1954) - novelette
• 103 - Surface Tension - [Pantropy] - (1952) - novelette
• 175 - Watershed - [Pantropy] - (1955) - short story

Genetic engineering has produced a group of nine foot giants that are the objects of ridicule for most of the population.

FIRST CONTACT!

The glowing ovoid plummeted downward, the whole sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. A supersonic bang broke over the forest, but the thing was already gliding down to Earth. As the ovoid settled in among the trees, the entire forest burst into flames. A thin black line appeared and etched a perfect circle on the side of the metal egg, then thickened into a door. The air was rent by a searing hiss. Slowly, the strange being - soon to be known to all mankind as VOR - began to emerge...

Note: An expansion of "The Weakness of RVOG" (1949), which was co-written with Damon Knight.

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the uncredited anthology Three for Tomorrow (1969). The story can also be found in the anthology Alpha 4 (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg. It is included in the collection Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish (1973 revised edtion).

Table of Contents:

• Science Fiction the Hard Way - essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• Citadel of Thought - (1941) - shortstory
• The Box - (1949) - shortstory
• There Shall Be No Darkness - (1950) - novelette
• Surface Tension - (1952) - novelette
• Testament of Andros - (1953) - novelette
• Common Time - (1953) - novelette
• Beep - (1954) - novelette
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette
• This Earth of Hours - (1959) - novelette
• The Oath - (1960) - novelette
• How Beautiful With Banners - (1966) - shortstory
• A Style in Treason - (1970) - novelette
• Probapossible Prolegomena to Ideareal History - (1978) - essay by James Blish

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, August 1965. The story can also be found in Science Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968), edited by Tom Boardman, Jr.

A cloistered monk desperately tries to close the Pandora's box opened by a mischievous weapons dealer who has recruited a powerful black magician to stir up trouble for humanity on the eve of Judgement Day.

Omnibus edition that includes Black Easter and The Day After Judgement.

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics... until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief.

Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds...

For aeons, the forces of darkness had tampered from afar with the earth and its inhabitants, until, in the ominously near future, Theron Ware, Doctor of Theology and Black Sorcerer of fiendish powers, conjures the fallen angels into the world of the flesh to deal more directly with those who would enlist the aid of the Evil One.

Retained by shadowy megalomaniac industrialist Baines to assassinate the Governor of California, Theron finds the means to unleash the demons of the underworld for one night of apocalyptic horror - to reign unopposed over heaven and earth, or to fall before the magic of the Monk of Monte Albano.

Baines is a bored businessman with a taste for the macabre -- a munitions dealer accustomed to fomenting war wherever and whenever he can. But nuclear proliferation has, ironically, been bad for business, and Baines needs something, anything to reverse that trend. His restless mind conceives a notion that satisfies his desire for profit and amusement both -- a scheme for letting lose all the demons of Hell for one night of unfettered destruction -- and he commissions Theron Ware, the great Black Magician, to carry out the plan.

Ware alone has the ability -- and the power -- to call up those chained to the darkness. Crimes of violence, chiefly murder, are his specialty. He will arrange for demons to kill almost anyone...for a price. As his scruples are invoked, the fee rises. But for Baines' commission, the payment can't be high enough. For Theron Ware has never before attempted to work his evil skill on such a monstrous scale. And if he cannot call the demons home again, their liberation will be permanent -- a catastrophe for the entire human race.

Launching an unprovoked attack upon the Federation, the Klingons have broken the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty – leaving the Enterprise stranded deep in uncharted space, cut off from the rest of the Federation fleet. Captain Kirk and the crew find themselves in the middle of an undeclared war waged by the Klingon Empire. The Organians should be consulted about the war, but their entire planet has disappeared – or been destroyed.

Commander Scott rigged an experimental modification of the transporter system, designed to enable a tachyon replica of Mr. Spock to travel faster-than-light to Organia. But the experiment failed. Suddenly there were two Mr. Spocks. One is the true First Officer of the Enterprise. The other is his complete opposite, a traitor whose very existence poses a grave threat to the crew, the ship, and the Federation itself. One of the Spocks must die. But which one?

MAN INVENTS

MAN DISCOVERS

MAN DEVELOPS

...AND MAN DESTROYS

Out of the innocence of discovery and that fulfilling moment when theory becomes a workable reality, a monstrous horror grows. Grows, multiplies, and degenerates until it reaches the ultimate terror.

Terror spawned in a laboratory intended to create a new generation that is stronger, brighter, and longer-lived.

Horror nurtured in a public relations office on the day the first interplanetary life is discovered.

Only such masters of science fiction as James Blush and Robert Silverberg could have brought such a startling reality to the havoc wreaked by a test tube and a conference table.

Long out of print, the science fiction masterpiece by Hugo Award winning writer James Blish

Originally published as four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a brilliant and bleak look at a world where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life.

In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, man has thoroughly explored the Solar System, yet the dream of going even further seems to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries -- anti-gravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and antigravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. An armada of renegade cities attempts to destroy Earth, their ancient birthplace. In the final novel, A Clash of Cymbols (The Triumph of Time), history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back in to space making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire Universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks the return to print of one of science fiction's masterpieces.

Earthman, Come Home is a science fiction novelette by James Blish, first published in 1953. It was subsequently incorporated into a novel of the same name in 1955. The story deals with flying "Oakie" cities.

In 2004, it won the 1954 Retro Hugo Award for novelettes. It originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1953. It can also be found in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B (1973), edited by Ben Bova.

Also published as Year 2018!

2018 AD. The time of the Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes that rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research their desperate project is nearing completion...

A CITY LAUNCHES ITSELF INTO THE GALAXY!

The noise was horrifying. He had never heard anything even a fraction as loud, but there could be no doubt about what it was: the city's spindizzies were sounding the alert.

Then the whole city seemed to be rocking heavily, like a ship in a storm. At one instant, the street ended in nothing but sky; at the next, he was staring at a wall of sheared earth, its rim looming cliff-like, fifty feet or more above the new margin of the city; then the blank sky was back again...

The novel incorporates a novelette of the same name, first published in 1953.

Historia Galactica, Vol. MXLIII

Centuries ago, after the fall of Western civilization, when Earth's resources were consumed, entire cities cut loose from the home planet to roam the Universe.

Earth, the sleepy capital of the Universe, was deserted - a garden planet. It was known only as a legend in many corners of space - a green myth floating untold millions of light years away.

Then, as foretold by cyclic theories of sociahistorians, colonies of flying cities reverted to the laws of the jungle - to barbarity, cruelty - naked force! These outlaw cities banded together to march on Earth - and obliterate the birthplace and last stronghold of universal culture!

The only hope for the universe lay in two men - one young and vigorous, the other over one thousand years old!

APOCALYPSE!

When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through inter-galactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation. They had lifted the curtain and caught an instant's glimpse of the Unknowable. But to have looked it full in the face could have been no more fatal... For later, much later, they were to learn that they had also uncovered mankind's Day of Judgment!

Also published as: The Triumph of Time

Tipton Bond was a man who lived for challenges - and Earth had no more challenges for him. But on Xota: One of the giants' faces bent over him, sardonically benign. "You are an Earthman, little human electron. You are a denizen of a planet which the Warriors of Day will reach and engulf, in a bare thousand years. Did you think to escape us by coming to Xota? You have brought yourself closer to the thing which you thought to escape. You will share in the general holocaust when the Wild Star arrives!" Giants they might be, Bond decided, but they had limitations. "What is this Wild Star?" he called. The slow thunder answered: "It is the most condensed of white dwarfs, almost pure neutronium throughout. And what makes a sun a runaway sun? The answer, little one, is very simple: The Warriors of Day!

Caiden had trouble getting used to his frightening new powers - he could read minds, walk through walls, control inanimate objects, foresee events. He found himself suddenly jerked into a timeless limbo where he had to fight for his life using his unmastered abilities against ruthless adepts bent on the dstrction of our universe.

THE INHABITANTS OF TERRA NICKNAMED THEM "ANGELS"

They were exquisitely beautiful, these shimmering, fiery creatures, highly intelligent and playful. Yet they were awesome, too, considering that the youngest were four million years old, and the oldest had probably participated in the First Cause, which had given birth to the whole universe.

To young space cadet Jack Loftus fell the overwhelming responsiblity of negotiating a treaty with them - a treaty which could mean the life or death of the Earth and mankind.

INTO THE HEART OF THE MILKY WAY

Earth wants to join the incredibly powerful Federation of the Heart Stars. But first, an expedition must journey to the center of our galaxy to be accepted by the ancient and advanced civilization of Malis, the leader of the Heart Stars.

After receiving space directions on the Mars moon of Phobus, the Earth expedition proceeds into the uncarted vastness of space. Streaking faster than the speed of light, they venture where no man or woman had ever been before, to strange-and dangerous-planets. But the biggest peril of all awaits them on Malis itslef, where the fate of Earth will be decided!

For many years, hiding under a cloak of anonymity, the most penetrating critic of the field of magazine science fiction was known as "William Atheling, Jr." It soon became a challenge to guess his real identity. And that was no easy game, for Atheling's dissection did not spare even his other ego, the noted science-fiction writer James Blish.

Having shed his protective covering, Mr. Blish has assembled many of the Atheling papers and edited them into the present book. While it covers principally the science-fiction magazines from 1952 to 1963, it is a timeless textbook for would-be writers of science fiction. Nor is its value limited to that genre; the rules of good writing are universal, and Atheling's critiques are not restricted to the peculiarities and special interests of science fiction.

The essays take the aspiring authors and editors--the Heinleins and Campbells of tomorrow--by the hand and lead them painstakingly through the dense forests of "said-bookism," the treacherous moors of "repetitive phrasing," and other forbidden territories. And even an old hand or three will find cause to wonder and reflect, and perhaps even to re-evaluate professional skills too long taken for granted.

No subject is too sacred or taboo for Atheling's shredding typewriter; from sex to God, from religion to satirical poetry. No author, however fragile, is spared the bloody mark of his relentless lash; from Anderson to Heinlein to Zirul. . . and all stops in between. No editor or publisher, from Campbell to Columbia, is spared his--or its--due share of any responsibility.

But most important, The Issue at Hand is not just--or even primarily--a textbook for students of writing. It is a vastly entertaining collection in its own right, affording many hours of pleasant and informative reading and re-reading, urging the reader ahead with the wry comments, unexpected humor, and undeviating attention to standards that were the hallmarks of William Atheling, Jr.

James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on stories in the science-fiction magazines.

Now we present a new volume which concentrates on science-fiction books. As before, Atheling's rapier skewers literary malefactors of many kinds, including some well-known authors whose great popularity is all the more puzzling because there seems to be so little reason for it.

To be sure, Atheling does not stint praise where it is due--see especially the chapters on Budrys and Sturgeon--but it is in the nature of criticism that the sins and errors be dealt with in greatest detail. As Atheling puts it:

"There is no such thing as destructive criticism. That is just a cliche people use to signal that their toes have been stepped on. After all, the whole point of telling a man he is doing something the wrong way is the hope that next time he will do it right.

"Simply saying that a given book is bad may serve the secondary function of warning the public away from it, if the public trusts the critic. But if you do not go on to say in what way it is bad, your verdict is not destructive criticism, or any other kind of criticism; it is just abuse.

"A good critic is positively obliged to be harsh toward bad work. By a good critic, I mean a man with a good ear, a love his field at its best, and a broad and detailed knowledge of the techniques of that field. The technical critic (not, please, the scientific or technological one), should be able to say with some precision not only that something went wrong--if it did--but just how it went wrong.

"In writing, as in any other art, there is a medium to be worked in, and there are both adroit and clumsy ways to work with it. The writer should know the difference between what is adroit and what is clumsy. If he does not, it is the function of the technical critic to show it to him. Technical critics are, or should be, invaluable to the writer who is serious about the lifelong task of learning his craft.

"Such a critic is also useful to the reader. Here his work usually takes the form of explication du texte: he uses special knowledge to unearth and expose some element in the work of art which the ordinary reader probably did not know was there."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories No. 5) - (1970) - essay by James Blish
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Passengers - (1968) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Not Long Before the End - (1969) - short story by Larry Niven
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• The Man Who Learned Loving - (1969) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The SF Novel in 1969 - (1970) - essay by Darko Suvin
• Short SF in 1968 - (1970) - essay by Alexei Panshin

Circling the solar sphere in search of new worlds and high adventure

Captain James Kirk - Assigned to the top position in Space Service - Starship Command - Kirk alone must make decisions in his contact with other worlds that can affect the future course of civilization throught the Universe.

Science Officer Spock - Inheriting a precise logical thinking pattern from his father, a native of the planet Vulcanis, Mr. Spock maintains a dangerours Earth trait... an intense curiousity about things of alien origin.

Yeoman Rand - Easily the most popular member of the crew, the truly "out-of-this-world" blonde has drawn the important assignment of secretary to the Captain on her fist mission in deep space.

With a crew of 400 skilled specialists, the mammoth spacs ship Enterprise blasts off for intergalactic intrigue in the unexplored realms of outer space.

A galactic ticket to infinite adventure!

Eight journeys into the unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to the unexplored reaches of outer space, to worlds where humans are an alien race and the unusual is routine. Astonishing new worlds of strange beings, bizarre customs, unknown dangers and awesome excitement.

A world where war is fought by computers! A world inhabited by great lizard-like creatures of conquest! A world ravaged by a relentless plague of madness and death! A world where life has developed beyond the need for physical bodies! Travel now to the bold new worlds of tomorrow.

An extraordinary journey into the supernatural!

Seven chilling stories into the bizarre and unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to the unknown regions of outer space, to worlds where unearthly powers can control human beings and where unspeakable horror becomes normal. Unimaginable new galazies of strange beings, bizarre customs, unknown dangers and awesome excitement. A world threatened by tribbles, small and furry with no eyes or faces - only a mouth. A killer planet where time and space change by telepathy. A monster robot that smashes planets and digests them. An alien being who comes to Earth to start World War III.

A galactic ticket to infinite adventure.

Six assignments in space and time

In the name of the Federation Council and the Starfleet Comman, Spock and the Enterprise crew grapple with: A Silicon-Based Monster, An Interplanetary Spy, An Amorous Amazon, A Misguided Moster "Boss", A Time-Jumping Technician And the Mind-Enslaving Elders of Talos IV, in the "Hugo" Award-Winning Episode "Menagerie."

The Enterprise blazes new star trails to danger as Kirk, Spock and the rest encounter - an asylum planer where the mad rule, a universe with a total population of one, race warfare to the death - whiteblack against blackwhite, paradise - with a most unusual serpent, the ultimate in women's lib, an almost eternal triangle, a gang of galactic drop0outs - and other startling problems and perils.

Kirk, Spock, Bones and the others of the Enterprise find a deadly Eden, discover elemental life forces and planetary death wishes, and even meet Abraham Lincolnd and Genghis Khan, as they speed through space on new assignments into the unknown.

Join Up!

Board the Enterprise and journey with her crew to far-off worlds, where you will find: Greek gods and American Indians, men who can live forever and other men who die of old age at twenty-nine, a machine with the power to raise the dead and a woman whose tears can topple empires.

On their latest missions, Starship Enterprise and her crew journey to a glaciated wasteland where beautiful women rule; defeat the ferocious double of Captain Kirk on board the Starship Enterprise; visit an eerie planet where it's always Halloween; and even dare to go beyond the edge of the galaxy.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Explore the outer reaches with the Enterprise and her crew as they exchange bodies with an alien intelligence; engage in deadly war games; pursue a vaporous creature to a desolate planet; and probe a fearsome zone of darkness that threatens to destroy them all.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

As the Enterprise hurtles through space, the crew must destroy a ravening, murderous monster aboard the starship; Kirk discovers an incredibly beautiful creature with strange powers of healing; Spock views the forbidden Kollos and goes insane; and more!

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Six episodes from the original series, converted into novelette-length stories by Blish.

CONTENTS, with authors of original script stories:

• What Are Little Girls Made Of? [Robert Bloch]
• The Squire of Gothos [Paul Schneider]
• Wink of an Eye [Arthur Heinemann & Lee Cronin]
• Bread and Circuses [Gene Roddenberry & Gene L Coon]
• Day of the Dove [Jerome Bixby]
• Plato's Stepchildren [Meyer Dolinsky]

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Kirk: slave, McCoy: murdered, Spock: outlaw - in a universe gone mad

A univers where worlds are ruled by neo-Nazi dictators... A universe that immunizes children to the wholesale slaughter of their parents... A universe where the slightest though unleashes total terror...

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the crew of the Starship Enterprise enter the darkest dimensions of existence - on their newest exploration of unknown worlds.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl. Star Trek 12, published after the death of Blish in July 1975, was credited to both Blish and Lawrence.