Works of Art
by James Blish
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A collection of short stories which includes Common Time, Testament of Andros, The Art of a Sneeze, Statistician's Day, Who's in Charge Here, There Shall Be No Darkness, and A Work of Art.Tags
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Blish appears to have written most of his works in the cold war era. Some of his stories are fixed around cold war issues such as post nuclear war conditions and combat of the west and the Soviets. Other stories are concerned with ethics of planetary expansion. The Works of Art includes some odd short stories such as that of putting the mind of Strauss in someone elses brain and that of starting a race of microscipic humanoids in a different planet (Surface Tension). The author was talented but his meaning in some stories is somewhat obscure. I did like his story about the werewolves but this seemed an obstraction from his main themes. I mildly recommend the book since some of the short stories are creative.
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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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