TY - ABST T1 - ... and all the stars a stage Y1 - 1971 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes as background a dystopia of male-female conflict caused by a technology that allows parents to choose the sex of their children. Too many men made most of them superfluous.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Abr. version originally published in Amazing Stories 34.6 - 7 (June - July 1969): 6-67, 80-131.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Statistician's Day." Y1 - 1970 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We All Die Naked" Y1 - 1969 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Three for Tomorrow PB - Meredith Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Torrent of Faces Y1 - 1967 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) A1 - Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Life for the Stars Y1 - 1962 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Case of Conscience Y1 - 1958 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker & Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a “Biographical Note” (809-10), a “Note on the Text” (815-16), and “Notes” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.

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