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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Now what can happen is a book you used to like, you go back and reread and find out it's not as good as you thought it was. I've had that happen. The last book like that was [i[Spock Must Die[/i] by James Blish. What I didn't pay attention to back then or really understood, I did now and the flaws in the book stood out quite easily.
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I'm a big fan of Blish, but not for his ST books. I'd love to see an ebook reissue of the "Cities in Flight" series, and of his Hugo Award winning _A Case of Conscience_.
Years back, there was a Star Trek con in Philadelphia, where I was living at the time. I stopped by because I knew people who would be there. One pair were selling books in the Dealer's Room. Blish had just died. They recounted a fan coming to their table, picking up a Blish ST novelization, and saying "He just died, didn't he?" "Yes." "Oh. Is he gonna write any more of these?"
I'm not sure how you respond to a question like that. My friends weren't, either...
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Dennis