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  • Black Easter

    by James Blish ...
    Theron Ware is a renowned scholar and Doctor of Divinity. He is also secretly one of the world's great Black magicians. And when a rich megalomaniac industrialist, Baines, enlists his aid in summoning a demon from Hell to assassinate the governor of California (in an "excess of horror"), Ware has no scruples about accepting the assignment. But this terrible and devilish deed is only a warm-up, a ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • A Case of Conscience

    by James Blish ...
    A space-traveling Jesuit priest confronts a moral but godless alien race in this Hugo Award–winning novel by the author of the Cities in Flight saga.Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn't feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system—until he is sent to Lithia.The reptilian inhabitants of this distant ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Shot

    by James Blish ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    (Excerpt): "You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do?." ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Cities in Flight

    by James Blish ...
    From the Hugo Award–winning author, the classic millennia-spanning epic in one volume: "A wholly new concept of the far future." — The New York TimesOriginally published in four volumes, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mistake Inside

    by James Blish ...
    One minute Dr. Hugh Tracy, astronomer, had been charging at the door of Jeremy Wright’s apartment, an automatic in his hand and blind rage in his heart. As his shoulder had splintered the panel, the world had revolved once around him, like a scene-changing stunt in the movies. Then he was not standing in Jeremy Wright’s apartment at all, but in a low-roofed, dirt-floored room built of crudely ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • King of the Hill

    by James Blish ...
    A madman can be prevented from throwing on bomb on Earth—but what if he's in space? Introduction by John Betancourt. ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Issues at Hand

    by James Blish ...
    James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on stories in the science-fiction magazines.Now we present a new volume which concentrates on science-fiction books. As before, Atheling's rapier skewers ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thing in the Attic

    by James Blish ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy. In their exile on the ground they have to adapt to vastly different circumstances, fight monsters resembling dinosaurs, and finally happen upon the godly giants, whose existence they had questioned.(Goodreads) ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • The Tale that Wags the God

    by James Blish ...
    This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music—more fantastic than any fiction ) to the autobiographical "A Science Fiction Coming of Age" (focused on Blish's childhood), and a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day After Judgment

    by James Blish ...
    The powerful black magician Theron Ware has opened the gates of Hell and unleashed an army of demons. Chaos and destruction prevail, and most of the world lies smouldering in ruins. But in a bunker beneath the ashes of Denver a small group of survivors are determined not to submit to the forces of evil. They summon the nuclear powers of the country's military arsenal to destroy Hell, but what can ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • The Thing in the Attic

    by James Blish ...
    A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy. In their exile on the ground they have to adapt to vastly different circumstances, fight monsters resembling dinosaurs, and finally happen upon the godly giants, whose existence they had questioned. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Thing in the Attic

    by James Blish ...
    The story is set in a future where humanity has colonized other planets. The protagonist is an astronaut who lands on a distant planet and discovers an ancient civilization that has long been extinct. As the protagonist explores the ruins of this civilization, they come across a mysterious creature lurking in the attic of an ancient building.The "thing in the attic" turns out to be an intelligent ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus