Sunday, August 23, 2009

10 Books A Day: #123










A Case Of Conscience...James Blish...DelRey

Doctor Mirabilis...James Blish...Avon

Black Easter...James Blish...Avon

The Day After Judgement...James Blish...Avon

Star Trek: The New Voyages...ed. Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath...Bantam

A Canticle For Leibowitz...Walter M. Miller, Jr....Bantam

The Charwoman's Shadow...Lord Dunsany...Del Rey

Once On A Time...A. A. Milne...Signet

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy...Douglas Adams...Pocket

The Adventures Of Jules de Grandin...Seabury Quinn...Popular Library

The Hellfire Files Of Jules de Grandin...Seabury Quinn...Popular Library

The Skeleton Closet Of Jules de Grandin...Seabury Quinn...Popular Library


The James Blish books form a "trilogy" (with Black Easter and The Day After Judgement forming one long story) that he called After Such Knowledge, in which Blish explores the question of whether the search for secular knowledge is by its very nature prone to evil. Jules de Grandin is a paranormal investigator, who, with his sidekick Dr. Trowbridge, deals with cases of the supernatural and science fictional, in a series of stories that began in Weird Tales in the 1920's. And Star Trek: The New Voyages (1976) was some of the first "fan fiction" ever published professionally.


Book Count: 1452.

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