James Blish Reading Order

4 books (1958–1971)

Start with A Case of Conscience, the first of 4 books in the After Such Knowledge series.

#	Title
1	A Case of Conscience 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Doctor Mirabilis 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	Black Easter 1968Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Day After Judgment 1971Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1954–2018)

Start with 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, the first of 18 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	Novelets of Science Fiction 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Backdrop of Stars 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	Science Against Man 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ten Tomorrows 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bug-Eyed Monsters 1974Buy 🇺🇸
8	Antigrav 1975Buy 🇺🇸
9	Human Machines: An Anthology of Stories about Cyborgs 1975Buy 🇺🇸
10	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Late Great Future 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	Get Out of My Sky 1980Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	Tales of Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1956–1962)

Start with Earthman, Come Home, the first of 4 books in the Cities in Flight series.

#	Title
1	Earthman, Come Home 1956Buy 🇺🇸
2	They Shall Have Stars / Year 2018! 1956Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Triumph of Time / A Clash of Cymbals 1958Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Life for the Stars 1962Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1961–1973)

Start with So Close to Home, the first of 5 books in the Haertel Scholium series.

#	Title
1	So Close to Home 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Welcome to Mars 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anywhen 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	Midsummer Century 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Quincunx of Time 1973Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1961–1965)

Start with The Star Dwellers and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Star Dwellers 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mission to the Heart Stars 1965Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1964–1987)

Start with The Issue at Hand(As: William Atheling Jr.) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Issue at Hand(As: William Atheling Jr.) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	More Issues At Hand(As: William Atheling Jr.) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Tale That Wags the God 1987Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1954–1955)

Start with The Thing in the Attic and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Thing in the Attic 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	One-Shot 1955Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1957–2009)

Start with The Seedling Stars, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Seedling Stars 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Galactic Cluster 1959Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best Science Fiction Stories Of James Blish 1965Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Testament of Andros 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best of James Blish 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Get Out Of My Sky and There Shall be No Darkness 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Work of Art and Other Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Works of Art 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	With All of Love 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Dusk of Idols, and Other Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	In This World, or Another 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Flights of Eagles 2009Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1952–1971)

Start with Jack of Eagles, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Jack of Eagles 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Warriors of Day 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Frozen Year / Fallen Star 1957Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vor 1958Buy 🇺🇸
5	The duplicated man 1959Buy 🇺🇸
6	Titan's Daughter 1961Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Night Shapes 1962Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Torrent of Faces 1967Buy 🇺🇸
9	Giants in the Earth 1968Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Vanished Jet 1968Buy 🇺🇸
11	And All the Stars a Stage 1971Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1970–1981)

Start with Spock Must Die!, the first of 17 books in the Star Trek Adventures series.

#	Title
1	Spock Must Die! 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spock, Messiah!(By: Theodore R. Cogswell) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Trek: The New Voyages(By: Eleanor Arnason,Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Planet of Judgment(By: Joe Haldeman) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Star Trek 12(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	Star Trek: The New Voyages 2(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Price of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mudd's Angels(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Starless World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	Vulcan!(By: Kathleen Sky) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	Devil World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Fate of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Trek to Madworld(By: Stephen Goldin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	World Without End(By: Joe Haldeman) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	Perry's Planet(By: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Galactic Whirlpool(By: David Gerrold) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
17	Death's Angel(By: Kathleen Sky) 1981Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2024–2024)

12 books (1967–1977)

Start with Star Trek 1, the first of 12 books in the Star Trek: TOS Adaptations series.

#	Title
1	Star Trek 1 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Trek 2 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Trek 3 1969Buy 🇺🇸
4	Star Trek 4 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	Star Trek 5 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	Star Trek 6 1972Buy 🇺🇸
7	Star Trek 7 1972Buy 🇺🇸
8	Star Trek 8 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	Star Trek 9 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	Star Trek 10 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Star Trek 11 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	Star Trek 12 1977Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–1991)

Start with Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 2 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 3 1991Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2018)

Start with The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) and read in order.

4 books (1976–1978)

Start with The Star Trek Reader I, the first of 4 books in the The Star Trek Reader series.

#	Title
1	The Star Trek Reader I 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Star Trek Reader II 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Star Trek Reader III 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Star Trek Reader IV 1978Buy 🇺🇸