James Blish
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Sep 20, 2026
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One Shot by James Blish.
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On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York Harbor, Abner Longman's one shot, Brown, was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars.
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As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular weekend for Brown.
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"It's funny," he said.
RalphHOST
Now I've got the paperback edition and the illustration on the spine sets it apart from its contemporaries and it must have looked breathtaking as the dust jacket for the hardback.
RalphHOST
The painting is this sort of calcified jeweled ruin in a greenish tone and it's worth noting that by this point that painting had already been used in a Penguin edition of James Blish's A Case of Conscience and it also inspired the novel that came after The Crystal World which is Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition.
RalphHOST
Now, when I did a bit more digging, I discovered the Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations blog entry that catalogues a whole load of classics using Max Stern's covers, including The Man in the High Castle, The Doors of Perception, and possibly my favourite Ray Bradbury collection, The Day It Rained Forever, and I can't believe I missed that because I actually own that copy.
RalphHOST
Now there was a 60s fad for picking abstract art for SF covers and they didn't always fully align with the contents of the book but I think in the example of the Crystal World it's pretty well matched.
YoganandNARRATOR
The end of The Merchants of Venus.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
Mistake Inside by James Blish.
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I knew you hated it, but after all, breaking in this way, and a gun? After all, even if you do think it's humbug..." Hugh looked at the serene face of Jeremy Wright and silently pocketed the automatic.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
There was nothing, after all, that he could have said to either one of them.
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End of Mistaken Side by James Blish.
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Read by Paul Hampton
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One Shot by James Blish.
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This is a LibriVox recording.
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. One Shot by James Blish.
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On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York Harbor, Abner Longman's one shot, Brown, was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars.
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As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular weekend for Brown.
30 MINS LATER
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I was thinking of running for Congress next year from my district, but maybe this is more important.
EricHOST
Sidebar.
EricHOST
The original Star Trek episodes, the original series were eventually fictionalized, written in prose form in the series of books by this guy named James Blish.
EricHOST
And they were just called Star Trek one, Star Trek two, Star Trek three.
EricHOST
And each one has like six or seven of the episodes written in short story form.
EricHOST
And these were published back in like the early 70s.
EricHOST
So for me, it's one of the ways that I experienced a lot of the episodes, you know, after they stopped showing them in syndication and we stopped watching them at six o'clock every night when I was real little.
EricHOST
Then I was pulling these James Blish books out of the library.
EricHOST
And that's how I'm hip to a lot of these other.
BrianHOST
And then we got Charlie X.
BrianHOST
In the James Blish novel adaptation, it's different too.
BrianHOST
It's called Charlie's Law.
BrianHOST
James Blish, I'm just going to – this is all I learned from Inglourious Treksperts.
BrianHOST
I didn't know any of this.
BrianHOST
But when the show was – out or after it had gone off the air, it was still popular.
BrianHOST
So publishers literally just had James Blish write novelizations of the episodes and just publish those.
BrianHOST
People bought them.
Steve StocktonHOST
That time, you know, space was the place.
Steve StocktonHOST
You know, we read, uh, science fiction, later got into, um, Isaac Asimov and, uh, some of the, the Star Trek novels that I think James Blish was the author of those.
Steve StocktonHOST
They kind of followed along with the series, but as to my knowledge, none of those were ever made into Star Trek episodes.
Steve StocktonHOST
Those were big.
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Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
One Shot by James Blish.
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Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York Harbor, Abner Longman's one shot, Brown, was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular weekend for Brown.
30 MINS LATER
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I was thinking of running for Congress next year from my district, but maybe this is more important.
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One Shot by James Blish.
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This is a LibriVox recording.
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All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. One Shot by James Blish.
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On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York Harbor, Abner Longman's one-shot, Brown, was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars.
speaker_3NARRATOR
As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular weekend for Brown.
31 MINS LATER
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"It's funny," he said.
Blaine DallerHOST
We'll follow that same pattern next time.
Blaine DallerHOST
All four of those will be written by James Blish.
Blaine DallerHOST
We'll get Spock Must Die, and that'll be our focus because that is the original story.
Blaine DallerHOST
And then we will go through Star Trek 4, 5, and 6, where he continues to adapt episodes of the series in an almost random order.
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