Blish Against the Stone Beasts in Planet Stories Fall 77/2 On worlds where only extreme modifications of the human form would make it suitable-for instance, a planet of the gas giant type-no seeding is attempted.ġ948 J. Merril Beyond Human Ken 106Ī quick glance over the boards revealed that there was a magnetic field of some strength near by, one that didn’t belong to the invisible gas giant revolving half a million miles away.ġ955 J. One of the lab men said that we have a Frankenslime to deal with. But the Esper ability is always quite limited.ġ967 J. It is a fact some people can sense future events, read the backs of playing cards and so on. It appears it learned more from me during our empathy than I did from it. None of us have to pretend that our living arrangements would keep us out of jail in Boston, or that they have to involve any Earth-normal excuses. Blish Bridge in Astounding Science Fiction Feb. In a kind of continuum in which a transfinite number and variety of universes are possible.ġ952 J. I am a construct made by a machine after the image of a dead man-and the hell of it is, not even I can know how exact the imitation is, because-well, because obviously if anything is missing I wouldn’t remember it. I am, by definition, not the same man who went into a transporter for the first time twenty years ago. The Federation must have that information. We might be able to find out how the Romulans' new cloaking device works. Blish The Enterprise Incident in Star Trek 4 98 You knew of the cloaking device that we have developed.ġ971 J. The thing was green and had two snapping claws, either one of which could have broken the ship in two like a spirogyra straw. 35/2įirst of all, there was the bug-eyed monster. Then comes the asteroid belt, followed by four small dense planets, two of which appear to be inhabitable.ġ952 J. Blish …And All the Stars a Stage in Amazing Stories 128/1 His eye could already resolve details smaller than fifty kilometers across, so that he could have seen a Sicily or even a Long Island, had Earth’s areographers been whimsical enough to put on on the map of Mars.ġ960 J. Blish Hour Before Earthrise in Worlds of If July 8/2

The fireball swelled intolerably as the matter and anti-matter in the doomed Klingon’s warp-drive.ġ966 J.

But it seems to be a good long step toward it.’ Of course, it couldn’t be a complete gravity screen by any means. ‘ They have antigravity! Isn’t that it?’ ‘Yes…. Quiet and undisconcerted, Spock went to the box, affixing anti-gravs to it.ġ952 J. You see, Joint knows about the anti-agathic drug, even though Appropriations and the Pentagon don’t. Blish At Death’s End in Astounding Science Fiction May 41/1 So what you’re looking for now is not an antibiotic-an anti-life drug-but an anti-agathic, an anti-death drug.ġ954 J. Blish At Death’s End in Astounding Science Fiction May 77 Quotations from James Blish anti-agathic n.ġ954 J.

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