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.
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)
Fantasy > Science fiction
15 verhalen van evenzovele schrijvers, die gerekend worden tot de meesters van de science fiction.
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. . . .
A bored weapons entrepreneur enlists the greatest black magician of all time to perform a magical feat of stupendous proportions, and only one man--a simple Italian monk--feels the imminent danger. But the holy man must stand and watch helplessly as the magician unleashes the most powerful demons of Hell onto an unsuspecting world.
A novel about a practitioner of witchcraft who is asked to use his powers to kill a powerful politician
