More by James Blish
It isn’t every composer who can premier his own last opera posthumously.
A Work of Art (1956)
One death is as good as another, if death is what you are courting.
…And All the Stars a Stage (1971)
A common thief with a gun in his hand isn’t half as dangerous as an engineer with a stick of dynamite.
Black Easter (1968)
But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.
A Case of Conscience (1958)
Munitions and magic are circles that don’t intersect very effectively.
Black Easter (1968)
We often resort to something called Hilbert space, which is described as n-dimensional—it’s like modern sex, any number may be played with.
The Quincunx of Time (1973)
In his opinion, neither justice nor mercy were very closely related to love, let alone being identical with it—otherwise, why have three words instead of one? A metaphor is not a tautology.
A Style in Treason (1970)
We cannot count upon the secret being kept. It’s a fact of nature, and as somebody or other remarked long ago, Nature is a blabbermouth; ask the right question, and you’ll always get the answer.
The Quincunx of Time (1973)
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