James Blish Appreciation

James Blish (1921-1975) was a major American science fiction (sf) writer. Like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, he wrote a "future history" series edited by John W. Campbell. Like CS Lewis, to whom he referred, he addressed theological issues in sf. This site comprises articles and fragments on aspects of Blish's work.


Articles

Some Early Blish

Interconnected Series Of James Blish

C. S. Lewis and James Blish

James Blish: Doctor Mirabilis

James Blish: Black Easter and The Day After Judgement

James Blish: Haertel Histories

James Blish: A Second Tetralogy Or Two More Diptychs?

James Blish and Norman L. Knight: Benevolent Fascism?

James Blish's After Such Knowledge Trilogy


Fragments

James Blish: Okies

James Blish: The End of the World

James Blish: Symbols and Anagrams

James Blish Compared With Graphic Novelists

 

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Paul Shackley

Biographical Details

Born, Workington, Cumberland (now Cumbria), North West England, 1st January, 1949.

Lived in Cumberland (Whitehaven and Penrith), Kent (Sevenoaks), Ireland (Dublin) and Lancashire (Morecambe and Lancaster).

Attended primary schools in Penrith and Scotland and secondary school in the Republic of Ireland.

BA, first class, Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin,1973.

PhD, Religious Studies, Lancaster University,1976.

Postgraduate Certificate of Education, Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University),1982.

Diploma in Careers Guidance, Kent College for the Careers Service,1989.

Personal Advisers’ Diploma, Nottingham Trent University, 2004.

Jobs: factory worker, unskilled labourer, temporary post man, Retail Assistant, furniture remover, admin worker, School Teacher, part-time Philosophy Tutor, Careers Adviser, others miscellaneous, employed by Lancashire Young People's Service from 1st April, 2007.

Married, one daughter, one granddaughter.

Member of: Unison (public sector trade union); Socialist Workers Party; Lancaster Unity (an anti-fascist campaigning group); Lancaster Serene Reflection Meditation Group (Soto Zen); Bentham Grammar School Association; Lune Pagans Moot pagan network; science fiction and comics fan groups.

Philosophy: dialectical materialism.

Politics: unorthodox Trotskyism.

Inner practice: zazen.

 


 

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