Futurian society

Babel hugo award
Doctor mirabilis
Hugo awards

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James Blish

Biography

James Blish Born James Benjamin Blish in East Orange, New Jersey, on May 23, 1921, the only child of Asa Rhodes Blish, an advertising manager, and Dorothea Schneewind Blish, a pianist. While still in high school edited fanzine The Planeteer (six issues, 1935–36) and began attending meetings of the Futurian Society in New York, where he met Isaac Asimov, Cyril Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, and others. Published first science fiction story, “Emergency Refueling,” in Super Science Stories in 1940. Majored in zoology at Rutgers, graduating in 1942. Drafted into the Army, he served as a medical technician at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Started at Columbia University in 1944, switching from zoology to literature; did not complete his M.A. degree, but later revised his thesis on Ezra Pound and sold it to The Sewanee Review, where it appeared in 1950. After the war, wrote stories for Western Action, Crack Detective Stories, and Super Sports along with science fiction, trying to earn a living as a freelance writer; worked for trade magazines

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James Blish Biography

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(1921–75), A Case of Conscience, Cities in Flight, The Seedling Stars, Doctor Mirabilis

Americanscience fictionwriter and critic, born in East Orange, New Jersey, educated at Rutgers and Columbia Universities; he lived in England in later years. Among his best-known works are A Case of Conscience (1958), a dramatized debate about the theological status of an alien race; Cities in Flight (1970), a collection of four earlier works in which Earth cities like New York literally take off and orbit the planet; The Seedling Stars (1957), a collection of short stories; Doctor Mirabilis (1964), a fictional study of Roger Bacon; and Black Easter; Or, Faust Aleph-Null (1968), a discussion on the death of God. Blish's criticism was collected in The Issue at Hand (1964), More Issues at Hand (1970), and The Tale that Wags the Dog (1988). See also space opera.

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionEncyclopedia of Literature: Bible in English to [Thomas] Edwar

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Catherine Blish

Translational immunologist

Catherine Blish
Citizenship	United States
Education	BS, University of California, Davis, Biochemistry (1993) PhD, University of Washington, Immunology (1999) MD, University of Washington (2001) Residency: University of Washington Medical Center (2003) American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases (2006)
Known for	Innate immune system, HIV/AIDS, NK cells
Awards	ICAAC Young Investigator Award, American Society for Microbiology (2010) NIH Director's New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health (2013) Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (2016) Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America (2017) Chan Zuckerberg Investigator (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	Stanford University
Website	https://med.stanford.edu/blishlab.html

Catherine Blish is a translationalimmunologist and professor at Stanford University. Her lab works on clinical immunology and focuses primarily on the role of the innate immune system in fighting in