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Book 1: Star trek 1. Charlie's law. Dagger of the mind. The unreal McCoy. Balance of terror. The naked time. Miri. The conscience of the king.--Book 2: Star trek 4. All our yesterdays. The devil in the dark. Journey to Babel. The menagerie. The Enterprise incident. A piece of the action.--Book 3: Star trek 9. Return to tomorrow. The ultimate computer. That which survives. Obsession. The return of the Archons. The immunity syndrome..Tags
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This is an omnibus of James Blish's classic Trek novelizations (though short storyizations is more accurate), specifically Star Treks 1, 4, and 9 (kinda random). It was typical James Blish. The early stuff was most interesting, since it would often wildly differ from the episodes. (originally written January 2005)
More classic Star Trek episodes turned into short stories. The book calls them 'novelizations', but they are far too short. More classic episodes, including Charlie's Law, Balance of Terror, All Our Yesterdays, The Menagerie, The Ultimate Computer, etc. The author list is not as impressive as volume 1, some of the authors I've never heard of since, but this is still good classic Star Trek reading, long before Star Trek became a genre on its own.
The second volume of James Blish's slightly inept novelizations of the original Star Trek episodes. Not particularly well-adapted; useful for reference material at best.
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James Benjamin Blish was born on May 23, 1921 in East Orange, N.J. Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942 - 1944 as a medical technician in the United States Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing show more career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. From 1962 to 1968, he worked for the Tobacco Institute. Between 1967 and his death from lung cancer in 1975, Blish wrote authorized short story collections based upon the 1960s TV series Star Trek. He wrote 11 volumes adapting episodes of the series. He died midway through writing Star Trek 12. Perhaps Blish's most famous works were the "Okies" stories, known collectively as Cities in Flight, published in the science-fiction digest magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Some of James Blish's other works include The Vanished Jet, And All the Stars a Stage, The Quincunx of Time, and Flight of Eagles. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Star Trek Reader II
- Original title
- The Star Trek Reader II
- Alternate titles
- The Star Trek Reader II
- Original publication date
- 1977-08 (eng.) (eng.)
- Dedication
- To Harlan Ellison who was right all the time.
- First words
- Though as Captain of the starship Enterprise James Kirk had the final authority over four hundred officers and crewmen, plus a small and constantly shifting population of passengers, and though in well more than twenty... (show all) years in space he had had his share of narrow squeaks, he was firmly of the opinion that no single person ever gave him more trouble than one seventeen-year -old boy.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then Mr. Spock and I will be breaking out our mountaineering gear.
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