James Blish

Doctor Mirabilis

Roger Bacon: heretic, occultist -- genius. In a Europe dominated by the narrow doctrines of Catholicism, Bacon was a man whose vision reached far beyond even our own day, a...

Black Easter

Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not...

A Case Of Conscience

From Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, there was something of a trend in the 1950s for bringing Catholicism into a science fiction...

Cities In Flight: They Shall Have Stars; A Life For The Stars; Earthman Come Home; The Triumph Of Time

If space opera is the literature of breathtaking special effects, then how about this: an entire city ripped out of the earth and setting out on a journey through space?...