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Star Trek 3 (Star Trek #3)
by
James Blish
(From back of book)
Seven chilling stories into the bizarre and unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to unknown regions of outer space, to worlds where unearthly powers can control human beings and where unspeakable horror becomes normal...(there is more on the back of the book)
Seven chilling stories into the bizarre and unexpected with the crew of the starship Enterprise. Travel to unknown regions of outer space, to worlds where unearthly powers can control human beings and where unspeakable horror becomes normal...(there is more on the back of the book)
Paperback, 20th printing edition, 128 pages
Published
May 28th 1981
by Bantam Books
(first published 1969)
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Apr 26, 2011
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James Blish is not as widely known as, say, Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke but he ought to be. He isn't scary like Heinlein, isn't completely hopeless about character like Asimov and isn't as long winded as Clarke. His "After Such Knowledge" books belong in the front row of every SF library, as do the Cities in Flight series. One 50,000 word novel by Blish can contain more ideas than some writers' entire output. Blish was the master of the surprise ending, indeed the gob-smacking final sentence; on...more
This volume of episode adaptations from the original Star Trek/I> series feature some of the best ("the Trouble with Tribbles", "the Doomsday Machine", "Amok Time", and "Mirror, Mirror") and some of the worst ("Spectre of the Gun", "Friday's Child") that the show had to offer. "The Last Gunfight", the version of "Spectre of the Gun" is a little better than the show itself was, and all of the episodes novelized have interesting quirks that make them more interpretations of the original shows t...more
Useful before the VCR, nostalgic oddities today, I'm just not a huge fan.
Brand Decker survives 'the Doomsday Machine' where Matt Decker vitally did not. I prefer the self-sacrificing version that TV gave me.
Also, why would Bones and Kirk be 'insufferably pleased' to have a "highly inbred" baby from the planet here called Ceres named in their honour?
At least baby Leonard James Akaar isn't an Oriental like those darn Klingons. But maybe he DOES he have a tail, like the Blish version of Gorn. I adm...more
Brand Decker survives 'the Doomsday Machine' where Matt Decker vitally did not. I prefer the self-sacrificing version that TV gave me.
Also, why would Bones and Kirk be 'insufferably pleased' to have a "highly inbred" baby from the planet here called Ceres named in their honour?
At least baby Leonard James Akaar isn't an Oriental like those darn Klingons. But maybe he DOES he have a tail, like the Blish version of Gorn. I adm...more
This one's a little truer to the finished episodes than its predecessor, but there are still some big differences, particularly in Operation: Annihilate! and Friday's Child. (Damn, Friday's Child was cold.) Also, big chunks of Space Seed and Amok Time are missing, and Spock's characterization is still evolving (instead of the famous "Jim!", we get uncontrollable sobs, which, you know, is fine with me, but still).
I just love reading these... James Blish really did an outstanding job.... What's amazing is the books did better than the TV series... Many stories were Hugo Award winners or nominated for the award....
This is a great collection of short stories adapted from the TV show. Three of the tales were nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation. One of stories is The Trouble with Tribbles, which makes the book worth reading just on that one story alone. It is an easy read for whenever you want a quick escape.
This series of books, adaptations of the episodes into short stories, was actually my first introduction to Mr. Blish's writings.
Read these in the library at lunch time in grade eight hiding from my tormentors. (A lifetime and five minutes ago.)
Novelizations of Star Trek TOS. Fun to read if you've never seen the original TV episodes.
These adaptations were quite good then, and now.
Very interesting way to write short stories of the TOS episodes.
These are Blish's novelizations/storyizations of the original Star Trek episodes. Sometimes they are slightly different from the final episode since they were written from shooting scripts as I understand. Although I enjoyed them, it's because of the tie in with the TV series episodes. The writing here is fairly workmanlike and this is really bare bones kind of work.
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Another half dozen episodes or so of the Original TV series rewritten as novella-length Sci-Fi stories.
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James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians.
Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–...more
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In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians.
Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–...more
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