He did freelance writing, not writing exclusively science fiction, worked for trade magazines, was a reader for a literary agency, and also worked as editor for magazines, even writing teleplays for Captain Video. Although he didn’t get his M.A., he rewrote his thesis on Ezra Pound and sold to The Sewanee Review.
By eleven, Astounding published one of his letters because he was so enthusiastic about science fiction.īlish graduated with a zoology degree, was drafted into the Army as a medical technician, and after the war switched from studying zoology to literature. By ten, he had a subscription with Amazing Stories. He was born, 2, in East Orange, New Jersey one of those sprawling urban burgs surrounded by numerous small parks, but only minutes from downtown Manhattan. The novel, Spock Must Die! is an original work of his. His wife Judith Anne Lawrence managed to finish the adaptation of the last two, published as: Mudd’s Angels (1978). He was working on them, but died before he got around to them. There are a few of Star Trek’s TOS episodes he didn’t adapt into novels: The Children Shall Lead, Shore Leave, Mudd’s Women, I Mudd.
James Benjamin Blish may not be as widely known as he ought to be, not when you consider the number of Star Trek novelizations he produced. 19 – 2013 June – James Benjamin Blish, Cities in Flight, and Technical Exposition.
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