James Blish - James Blish James Blish (May 23, 1921 - July 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942-1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. Perhaps his most famous works were the 'Okies' stories in Astounding Science Fiction, known collectively as the 'Cities in Flight'. The framework for these was set in the novel They Shall Have Stars. This shows the.
Jerome Bixby - a Good Life (1953) The Monsters (1953) One Way Street (1953) Share Alike (1953) with Joe E. Dean Where There's Hope (1953) The Battle of the Bells (1954) The Draw (1954) The Good Dog (1954) Halfway to Hell (1954) The Holes Around Mars (1954) Mirror, Mirror (1954) Small War (1954) The Young One (1954) Little Boy (1954)[as Harry Neal] Laboratory (1955) Our Town (1955) Nightride and Sunrise (1957) with James Blish Trace (1961) The Bad Life (1963) The God-Pllnk (1963) The Magic Typewriter (1963) The Best Lover in Hell (1964) The Demon and the Well-Heeled Satyr (1964) The Dirtiest Story in Hell (1964) A Doll, a Gypsy Curse and Murder (1964) Guardian (1964) Heavenly Nymph on Hell's Island (1964) Jungle Sin (1964) Kiss of Blood (1964) The Last Wish (1964) The.
July 30 - (†1972) 1890 - Casey Stengel, Baseball Hall of Famer (†1975) 1898 - Henry Moore, sculptor (†1986) 1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer 1914 - Béatrix Beck, writer 1929 - Werner Tübke, painter 1930 - Thomas Sowell, economist 1934 - Bud Selig, baseball team owner and commissioner 1936 - Buddy Guy, guitarist, singer 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, film director 1941 - Paul Anka, singer and composer 1945 - David Sanborn, musician, Grammy Award winner 1946 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (†1994) 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, 38th Governor of California 1948 - Jean Reno, actor 1956 - Delta Burke, actress 1956 - Anita Hill, American law professor, author 1958 - Kate Bush, singer 1961 - Laurence Fishburne, actor 1974 - Hillary Swank, Academy Award winning.
July 29 - decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock. 1567 - James VI was crowned at Stirling. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693 - The Battle of Landen 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there. 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by police. 1851 - A De Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. 1864 -.
Hugo Award for Best Novel - 1953: The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester 1955: They'd Rather Be Right, Mark Clifton and Frank Riley 1956: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein 1959: A Case of Conscience by James Blish 1960: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein 1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller 1962: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 1963: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 1964: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 1965: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber 1966: ... And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny 1966: Dune by Frank Herbert 1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 1968: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny 1969: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner 1970: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Gas giant - a generic astronomical term invented by the science fiction writer James Blish to describe any large planet that is not composed mostly of rock or other solid matter. Gas giants may still have a solid core - in fact, it is expected that such a core is probably required for a gas giant to form - but the majority of its mass is in the form of gas (or gas compressed into a liquid state). Unlike rocky planets, gas giants do not have a well-defined surface. From top: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter () There are four gas giants in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These are also known as the Jovian planets. The term 'gas giant' is actually somewhat of a misnomer. For example, Jupiter has a.
Futurians - indicate that Donald A. Wollheim was pushing for a more left wing direction with a goal of leading fandom toward a political ideal, all of which Moskowitz resisted. As a result, Wollheim broke off and began the Futurians. Members of the Futurians included Isaac Asimov James Blish Hannes Bok Dan Burford Chet Cohen Harry Dockweiler Virginia Kidd Damon Knight Cyril Kornbluth Walter Kubilius David Kyle Robert A.W. Lowndes Judith Merrill John Michel Leslie Perri Frederik Pohl Larry Shaw Richard Wilson Donald A. Wollheim and many more... Books on the Futurians: "The Futurians" by Damon Knight (1977) "The Way The Future Was" by Frederik Pohl (1978) See also: Second Fandom.
1921 - with Germany September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held. November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding. December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister. Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and J.J.R. Macleod The year in topics 1921 in film February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse film, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. 1921 in literature 1921 in music 1921 in.
1975 - date. Song hits #9 on Billboard charts and is released on both their solo albums of 1975. 1975 in sports July 5 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. 1975 in television January 18 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS. April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show. October 11 - Saturday Night Live is broadcasted for the first time (George Carlin is the guest host). Wheel of Fortune premieres Births January 3 - Danica McKellar, actress January 22 - Balthazar Getty, actor January 27 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer. February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician February 11 - Chuck Watanabe, kayaker February 20 - Brian Littrell, musician ("NSYNC") February 22 - Drew Barrymore, actress. March 5.
1921 in literature - Elinor Wylie Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington The Byzantine riddle and other stories - Eugene Walter Figures of Earth - James Branch Cabell Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald Heloise and Abelard - George A. Moore Her Father's Daughter - Gene Stratton Porter The Idol of Paris - Sarah Bernhardt Joanna Godden - Sheila Kaye-Smith The Master of Man - Hall Caine The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset Mystery Ranch - Arthur Chapman Romance to the rescue - Denis Mackail Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini The Secret Power - Marie Corelli She and Allan - H. Rider Haggard Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos Births January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990) January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995) January 20 - Bernt.
Baphomet - torch on his head between his horns. This image comes from Eliphas Lévi's 1854 Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (in English known as Transcendental Magic). Lévi's depiction, for all its fame, is not particularly authentic to the historical description from the Templar trials. Baphomet, as Lévi's illustration suggests, has occasionally been understood as a synonym of Satan or a demon, a member of the hierarchy of Hell. Baphomet appears in that guise as a character in James Blish's The Day After Judgment. Jack Chick claims that he is a demon worshipped by Freemasons, a claim that apparently originated with the Taxil hoax. The head of Lévi's Baphomet inscribed in an inverted pentagram is a symbol occasionally adopted by Satanists and other followers of a Left Hand Path. Many theories.
Brian Aldiss - science fiction book, Space, Time and Nathaniel was published. By this time, his earnings from writing equalled the wages he got in the bookshop, so he made the decision to become a full-time writer. He was voted the Most Promising New Author at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1958, and elected President of the British Science Fiction Association in 1960. He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail newspaper during the 1960s. Around 1964 he and his long-time collaborator Harry Harrison started the first ever journal of science fiction criticism, Science Fiction Horizons, which during its brief span of two issues published articles and reviews by such authors as James Blish, and featured a discussion between Aldiss, C.S. Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issues, and an interview.
Columbia University - is the administrator of the coveted Pulitzer Prize and the duPont-Columbia Award in broadcast journalism. View of part of the Columbia University campus, 1915 Columbia Business School was added in the early 20th century. By the late 1930s, a Columbia student could study with the likes of Jacques Barzun, Paul Lazarsfeld, Mark Van Doren, Lionel Trilling, and I. I. Rabi, to name just a few of the great minds of the Morningside campus. The University's graduates during this time were equally accomplished - for example, two alumni of Columbia's Law School, Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone (who also held the position of Law School dean), served successively as Chief Justice of the United States. Butler Library at Columbia University (June 2003) Research into the atom by faculty members I..
SF Masterworks - for their Fantasy Masterworks line. List of titles (paperbacks) The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson Cities in Flight, by James Blish Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe Gateway, by Frederik Pohl The Rediscovery of Man, by Cordwainer Smith Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart Martian Time-Slip, by Philip K. Dick The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner The Disposessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut Emphyrio, by Jack Vance A Scanner.
Space opera - a superficially SF background. Many of the TV science fiction series from Battlestar Galactica to Star Trek are variants of space opera. Harry Harrison and Douglas Adams parody space opera clichés. Fritz Leiber's Wanderer tells a story about a situation when Earth sees one episode of interstellar conflict. Others, like Samuel R. Delany in Nova, refer to mythological concepts. In his 1965 story Space Opera, Jack Vance parodied the genre by writing about an interstellar operatic company which brought culture to deprived worlds. Sample space opera backgrounds Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda Babylon 5 Barsoom (Mars) series by Edgar Rice Burroughs Battlestar Galactica Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen Blake's 7 Cities in Flight series by James Blish Culture series by Iain M. Banks Dies Irea trilogy by Brian Stableford Dune by Frank Herbert.
Planets in science fiction - Smoke Ring (gas ring around a neutron star) Solaris — Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (living planet) Tatooine — Star Wars movies (desert world) Tenebra — Hal Clement's Close to Critical (high gravity and corrosive atmosphere) Thalassa — Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth (waterworld) Zahir — Valerian series (hollow planet) Other Altair IV — Forbidden Planet Arisia — E. E. Smith's Lensmen series Ark — The Strugatsky brothers Athse — Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest Bajor — Star Trek Barsoom — Edgar Rice Burroughs, heroic fantasy version of Mars Boskone — Smith's Lensmen series Belzagor — Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth The Blue Sands Planet — The Strugatsky brothers Centauri Prime — homeworld of the Centauri in the Babylon 5 universe Cyteen — C. J..
Nebula Award for Best Novel - Elliott A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt City on Fire by Walter Jon Williams Bellwether by Connie Willis 1996: Slow River by Nicola Griffith The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip Expiration Date by Tim Powers Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 1995: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer Mother of Storms by Iby John Barnes Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress Celestis by Paul Park Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams Calde of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe 1994: Moving Mars by Greg Bear Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem Towing Jehovah by James Morrow Temporary Agency by Rachel Pollack Green.
May 23 - Mountain climbing: 25-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes world's fastest ever ascent of Mount Everest, in 12 hours 45 minutes. 2004 - Last day of the 4th EJCF. Births 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (+ 1778) 1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer (+ 1842) 1810 - Margaret Fuller, journalist, feminist (+ 1850) 1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (+ 1881) 1848 - Otto Lilienthal, engineer (+ 1896) 1879 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, actor, cofounder of United Artists (+ 1939) 1888 - Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1972) 1890 - Herbert Marshall, actor (+ 1966) 1898 - Scott O'Dell, author (+ 1989) 1908 - John Bardeen, physicist (+ 1991) 1910 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (+ 1986) 1910 - Artie.
William Atheling Jr. - William Atheling Jr. was the pen name of James Blish, science fiction and fantasy author, when he criticized science fiction works. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
List of science fiction authors - (born 1957) Steven Barnes, (born 1952) T. J. Bass, (born 1932)(Thomas J. Bassler) L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919) Stephen Baxter, (born 1957) Greg Bear, (born 1951) Charles Beaumont, (1929-1967) Gregory Benford, (born 1941) Alfred Bester, (1913-1987) Eando Binder (Otto and Earl Binder)(1911-1974)(1904-1966) Terry Bisson (born 1942) Jerome Bixby, (1923-1998) James Blish, (1921-1975) Robert Bloch, (1917-1994) Nelson S. Bond, (born 1908) Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986) Anthony Boucher, (1911-1968)(pseudonym of William A.P. White) Ben Bova, (born 1932) Leigh Brackett, (1915-1978) Ray Bradbury, (born 1920) Marion Zimmer Bradley, (1930-1999) Reginald Bretnor, (1911-1992) David Brin, (born 1950) Damien Broderick, (born 1944) Terry Brooks, (born 1944) Eric Brown, (born 1960) Fredric Brown, (1906-1972) John Brunner, (1934-1995) Steven Brust, (born 1955) Algis Budrys, (born 1931) Lois McMaster Bujold, (born 1949) Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993) Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1875-1950) Octavia.
