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James Blish
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born
May 23, 1921
in East Orange, New Jersey, The United States
died
July 30, 1975
gender
male
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Cities in Flight
by James Blish, R.D. Mullen, Betty Ballantine    3.84 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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1970
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15 editions
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A Case of Conscience
by James Blish, Greg Bear 3.55 avg rating — 943 ratings
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published
1958
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18 editions
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Star Trek 1
3.51 avg rating — 426 ratings
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published
1967
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10 editions
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Spock Must Die!
 3.26 avg rating — 402 ratings
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published
1970
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8 editions
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Star Trek
3.49 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Star Trek 5
3.53 avg rating — 324 ratings
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1967
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7 editions
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Star Trek 4
3.54 avg rating — 325 ratings
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1971
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6 editions
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Star Trek 2
3.54 avg rating — 312 ratings
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1972
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Star Trek 10
3.56 avg rating — 270 ratings
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1974
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Star Trek 12
3.58 avg rating — 257 ratings
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“I will be the first. As of tonight, I renounce my citizenship in the United Nations, and my allegiance to the Shelter state. From now on I will be a citizen--a citizen of no country but that bounded by the limits of my own mind. I do not know what those limits are, and I may never find out, but I shall devote my life to searching for them, in whatever manner seems good to me, and in no other manner whatsoever.
You must do the same. Tear up your registration cards. If you are asked your serial number, tell them you never had one. Never fill in another form. Stay above ground when the siren sounds. Stake out plots; grow crops; abandon the corridors. Do not commit any violence; simply refuse to obey. Nobody has the. right to compel you, as non-citizens. Passivity is the key. Renounce, resist, deny!”
― James Blish, A Case of Conscience
You must do the same. Tear up your registration cards. If you are asked your serial number, tell them you never had one. Never fill in another form. Stay above ground when the siren sounds. Stake out plots; grow crops; abandon the corridors. Do not commit any violence; simply refuse to obey. Nobody has the. right to compel you, as non-citizens. Passivity is the key. Renounce, resist, deny!”
― James Blish, A Case of Conscience
“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...”
― James Blish, Cities in Flight
― James Blish, Cities in Flight
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