Researching James Blish
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The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Blish on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Blish and the Blish Family Tree
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Some Famous People called James Blish
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish 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. 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.
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