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James Blish's novelizations of 21 of the original episodes. Blish was not exactly a Star Trek devotee at the time; in his one original novel, he even has Kirk calling McCoy "Doc". Horrors! His adaptations are competent at best, never inspired. These novelizations are mainly useful as a reference for trivia bets. Even his treatment of the best episode, "The City On The Edge Of Forever", takes the shine off Harlan Ellison's crystalline dialogue.
These are very short stories that correspond to some of the classic Star Trek episodes. There are way too many classic episodes to list them all, but included are The City on the Edge of Forever, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Last Gunfight, Amok Time, Spock's Brain, etc. Authors include Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon. This is must reading for any classic Star Trek fan.
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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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- Canonical title
- The Star Trek Reader [omnibus]
- Original title
- The Star Trek Reader
- Alternate titles
- The Star Trek Reader
- Original publication date
- 1976-12 (eng.) (eng.)
- Dedication
- To my new-found relative Barbara Besadny
- First words
- Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise was the absolute master of the largest and most modern vessel in the Starfleet Service, of all the complex apparatus and weaponry aboard her, and of the manifold talents of the 430 ... (show all)highly trained crewmen.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Thank you, Jim," McCoy said. "Thank you very much."
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