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James Blish


Star Trek 1

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 1

James Blish

Circling the solar sphere in search of new worlds and high adventure

Captain James Kirk - Assigned to the top position in Space Service - Starship Command - Kirk alone must make decisions in his contact with other worlds that can affect the future course of civilization throught the Universe.

Science Officer Spock - Inheriting a precise logical thinking pattern from his father, a native of the planet Vulcanis, Mr. Spock maintains a dangerours Earth trait... an intense curiousity about things of alien origin.

Yeoman Rand - Easily the most popular member of the crew, the truly "out-of-this-world" blonde has drawn the important assignment of secretary to the Captain on her fist mission in deep space.

With a crew of 400 skilled specialists, the mammoth spacs ship Enterprise blasts off for intergalactic intrigue in the unexplored realms of outer space.

Star Trek 2

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 2

James Blish

A galactic ticket to infinite adventure!

Eight journeys into the unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to the unexplored reaches of outer space, to worlds where humans are an alien race and the unusual is routine. Astonishing new worlds of strange beings, bizarre customs, unknown dangers and awesome excitement.

A world where war is fought by computers! A world inhabited by great lizard-like creatures of conquest! A world ravaged by a relentless plague of madness and death! A world where life has developed beyond the need for physical bodies! Travel now to the bold new worlds of tomorrow.

Star Trek 3

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 3

James Blish

An extraordinary journey into the supernatural!

Seven chilling stories into the bizarre and unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to the unknown regions of outer space, to worlds where unearthly powers can control human beings and where unspeakable horror becomes normal. Unimaginable new galazies of strange beings, bizarre customs, unknown dangers and awesome excitement. A world threatened by tribbles, small and furry with no eyes or faces - only a mouth. A killer planet where time and space change by telepathy. A monster robot that smashes planets and digests them. An alien being who comes to Earth to start World War III.

A galactic ticket to infinite adventure.

Star Trek 4

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 4

James Blish

Six assignments in space and time

In the name of the Federation Council and the Starfleet Comman, Spock and the Enterprise crew grapple with: A Silicon-Based Monster, An Interplanetary Spy, An Amorous Amazon, A Misguided Moster "Boss", A Time-Jumping Technician And the Mind-Enslaving Elders of Talos IV, in the "Hugo" Award-Winning Episode "Menagerie."

Star Trek 5

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 5

James Blish

The Enterprise blazes new star trails to danger as Kirk, Spock and the rest encounter - an asylum planer where the mad rule, a universe with a total population of one, race warfare to the death - whiteblack against blackwhite, paradise - with a most unusual serpent, the ultimate in women's lib, an almost eternal triangle, a gang of galactic drop0outs - and other startling problems and perils.

Star Trek 6

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 6

James Blish

Kirk, Spock, Bones and the others of the Enterprise find a deadly Eden, discover elemental life forces and planetary death wishes, and even meet Abraham Lincolnd and Genghis Khan, as they speed through space on new assignments into the unknown.

Star Trek 7

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 7

James Blish

Join Up!

Board the Enterprise and journey with her crew to far-off worlds, where you will find: Greek gods and American Indians, men who can live forever and other men who die of old age at twenty-nine, a machine with the power to raise the dead and a woman whose tears can topple empires.

Star Trek 8

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 8

James Blish

On their latest missions, Starship Enterprise and her crew journey to a glaciated wasteland where beautiful women rule; defeat the ferocious double of Captain Kirk on board the Starship Enterprise; visit an eerie planet where it's always Halloween; and even dare to go beyond the edge of the galaxy.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Star Trek 9

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 9

James Blish

Explore the outer reaches with the Enterprise and her crew as they exchange bodies with an alien intelligence; engage in deadly war games; pursue a vaporous creature to a desolate planet; and probe a fearsome zone of darkness that threatens to destroy them all.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Star Trek 10

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 10

James Blish

As the Enterprise hurtles through space, the crew must destroy a ravening, murderous monster aboard the starship; Kirk discovers an incredibly beautiful creature with strange powers of healing; Spock views the forbidden Kollos and goes insane; and more!

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Star Trek 11

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 11

James Blish

Six episodes from the original series, converted into novelette-length stories by Blish.

CONTENTS, with authors of original script stories:

  • What Are Little Girls Made Of? [Robert Bloch]
  • The Squire of Gothos [Paul Schneider]
  • Wink of an Eye [Arthur Heinemann & Lee Cronin]
  • Bread and Circuses [Gene Roddenberry & Gene L Coon]
  • Day of the Dove [Jerome Bixby]
  • Plato's Stepchildren [Meyer Dolinsky]

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl.

Star Trek 12

Star Trek: The Original Series: Episode Novelizations: Book 12

J. A. Lawrence
James Blish

Kirk: slave, McCoy: murdered, Spock: outlaw - in a universe gone mad

A univers where worlds are ruled by neo-Nazi dictators... A universe that immunizes children to the wholesale slaughter of their parents... A universe where the slightest though unleashes total terror...

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the crew of the Starship Enterprise enter the darkest dimensions of existence - on their newest exploration of unknown worlds.

Although James Blish was credited as the adapter for the TV series episode stories for Star Trek 1 through Star Trek 11, in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of the Imagination it is acknowledged that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8, the stories were ghost-written by Blish's wife, J. A. Lawrence, and her mother, without the knowledge of editor Frederik Pohl. Star Trek 12, published after the death of Blish in July 1975, was credited to both Blish and Lawrence.

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