James Blish

Person · Open Library

Born

23 May 1921

Died

30 July 1975

Works

125

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Film & TV

Writing

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1929-04-17

Active to

2015-06-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

72

Total plays

237

Blish was born at East Orange, New Jersey. In the late 1930s to the early 1940s, Blish was a member of the Futurians. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The story was originally published in 1941, <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Blish">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,951x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,286x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,835x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,712x

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Quotes

• “High intelligence did not imply superior ability to come to terms with one’s social environment; indeed, there seemed to be some sort of rough correlation between high intelligence and the accumulation of aberrations.”
• “Of course a sense of guilt has a threshold; at a certain level of intensity it begins to confirm the habit-pattern rather than inhibit it—”
• “You may as well go, Maurice. You can’t undo what you’ve done in any case, nor can I expect to talk to you out of whatever it is you’re planning. But I will tell you this: Your sanity is dubious.”
• “All but a small percentage of Americans live out of their lives without ever coming closer to murder than the daily tabloid can bring them, though magazine fiction and video confer spurious intimacy with the subject.”
• “Sam was too good a scientist to let that hope creep into his hypothesizing.”
• “The subject was complex enough to nurture family splits as rancorous and as final as the theological hairsplitting which had been the bane of other ages.”

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Key facts

Born

James Benjamin Blish , ( 1921-05-23 ) May 23, 1921, East Orange, New Jersey , United States

Died

July 30, 1975 (1975-07-30) (aged 54), Henley-on-Thames , United Kingdom

Pen name

William Atheling Jr. Donald Laverty John MacDougal Arthur Lloyd Merlyn

Occupation

Writer, Literary critic

Language

English

Education

Rutgers University (BS) Columbia University (incompl.)

Period

1940–1975

Genre

Science fiction , Fantasy

Years active

1940–1975

Spouses

Virginia Kidd ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 23, 1947</span>"}]]}'>1947 ⁠ – ⁠ 1963 ) ​ J. A. Lawrence ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. November 7, 1964</span>"}]]}'>1964 ) ​

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