James Benjamin "Jimmy" Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel A Case of Conscience won the Hugo Award. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies.
James Blish
Author details
- Aliases:
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James Blish, James Benjamin Blish
- Born:
- May 23, 1921
- Died:
- July 30, 1975
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Books by James Blish

Walter M. Miller, Arthur Porges, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, A. Bertram Chandler, William Tenn, John Brunner, James Blish, A. E. van Vogt, Brian W. Aldiss, Theodore Cogswell, H. B. Fyfe, Arthur C. Clarke: Yet more Penguin science fiction (1964, Penguin Books)
Yet more Penguin science fiction
by Walter M. Miller, Arthur Porges, Damon Knight, and 10 others