Blish
Proper noun
Meaning
Blish (plural Blishes)
A surname.
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Critical reception The noted science-fiction writer and critic James Blish was no fan of Heinlein's treatment of his first-person protagonists in a number of his novels.
Damon Knight in The Futurians indicates that Blish at that time felt Fascism was interesting in theory, if repellent as it was then being practised.
In 1957, James Blish wrote that one reason for Heinlein's success "has been the high grade of machinery which goes, today as always, into his story-telling.
Honors, awards and recognition Soon after his death there was a 1976 BSFA Special Award to Blish for Best British SF.
Other Blish collaborated with Norman L. Knight on a series of stories set in a world with a population a thousand times that of today, and followed the efforts of those keeping the system running, collected in one volume as A Torrent of Faces.
Terminology The term gas giant was coined in 1952 by the science fiction writer James Blish and was originally used to refer to all giant planets.