James Blish was een Amerikaanse auteur die geroemd werd om zijn bijdragen aan fantasy en sciencefiction. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkte zich door een scherpe verkenning van de menselijke psychologie en maatschappelijke vraagstukken, vaak geplaatst in futuristische of verbeelde landschappen. Blish verdiepte zich in complexe morele dilemma's en existentiële thema's met een genuanceerde aanpak en meeslepende proza.
4 langere verhalen van beroemde SF-schrijvers:James Blish: Aardbewoner, kom thuis (Earthman, come home, 1953)Theodore Cogswell: Een zaak van techniek (The spectre general, 1952)Jack Williamson: Met de handen over elkaar (With folded hands, 1954)Frederik Pohl: De Midasplaag (The Midas plague, 1954)
15 verhalen van evenzovele schrijvers, die gerekend worden tot de meesters van de science fiction.
Fantasy > Science fiction
Bevat: Zullen sterren hen tooien... (Oorspr. They shall have stars, 1957) Een leven voor de sterren (Oorspr. A life for the stars, 1962) Aardling, kom thuis (Oorspr. Earthman, come home, 1955) De overwinning van de tijd (Oorspr. The triumph of time, 1958; also published under the title A clash of cymbals)
Book by Blish, James
Essef - You didn't make an Adapted Man with just a wave of the wand. It involved an elaborate constellation of techniques, known collectively as pantropy, that changed the human pattern in a man's shape and chemistry before he was born. And the pantropists didn't stop there. Education, thoughts, ancestors and the world itself were changed, because the Adapted Men were produced to live and thrive in the alien environments found only in space. They were crucial to a daring plan to colonize the universe.
In the year 2794, the greatest civilisation in Earth's history, ravaged by over-population and lack of food, faces almost certain destruction. A handful of men and women struggle desperately to avert the coming holocaust, but they seem doomed to failure. And even if they succeed, Earth will never be the same again . . .
Features 27 stories adapted from Star Trek's landmark first season.
The famous skyline still stood, the skyscrapers still towered—it was New York City—a million miles from earth!In a millennium of anti-death pills and spindizzy fields, earth's cities one by one leave the worn-out planet to find new wealth among unknown stars. . . .
