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Originally Posted by GibbinR
Don't think anyone has mentioned James Blish (born 1921) yet.
He wrote at least two wonderful sets of novels:
- Cities in Flight
- After Such Knowledge
and many other lesser ones.
As a British teenager growing up in the mid-sixties, he was a bigger figure to me than any of the big three.
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Blish was my first buy.
VOR.
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE is in many ways the quintessential SF story. A simple idea with deep consequences. A jesuit priest sent to meet the first sentient aliens discovered to determine if they have souls.
I'm particularly fond of his JACK OF EAGLES and QUINCUNX of time.
SF is the literature of ideas and Blish went for *big* ideas.