3 Quotes & Sayings By James Blish

James Blish was an American science fiction writer, visual effects artist, historian and teacher who was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2001. He wrote more than thirty books, including The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Ape Man (1942), and The Day of the Comet (1958).

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[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was the making of increasingly finer distinctions. The outcome was an endless series of theoretical catastrophes. James Blish
[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman,...
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[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire. James Blish