Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:33:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I wasn't sure of the Blish timeline--
I have read Black Easter and Day After Judgment, both
of which I thought were very good, but I only found
them well after I'd read his Trek adaptations as a
kid.
Never read Jack of Eagles.
As for whether Trek eclipses his other (and apparently
earlier) work, all I can say is that the Black Easter
duology is much higher in my regard than his Trek work
or Spock Must Die!... though I do have some fondness
for the stuff I read when I was 11 years old.

Drew

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Bittner" <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:25 PM
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
>
> > Can't think of any writers who came out of
> > Roddenberry's stable to establish themselves apart
> > from Gerrold, though maybe James Blish could be
> > credited with getting his career from Trek. (I
> think
> > his earliest published works were Trek
> adaptations.)
>
> You're kidding, right?   Blish's "Trek adaptations"
> were among his last
> published works and were easily among his worst.  He
> once said that he did
> them in order to attract more readers (Trekkies) to
> his other works.
> Sadly, this did not happen.  And I guess you're
> proof of his failure in
> that regard.
>
> --Ted White
>

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