The Best of James Blish

A collection of science fiction stories.

Contents:

• Introduction: Science Fiction the Hard Way by Robert A. W. Lowndes (editor)
• Citadel of Thought
• The Box
• There Shall Be No Darkness
• Surface Tension (revised from "Sunken Universe" and "Surface Tension")
• Testament of Andros
• Common Time
• Beep
• A Work of Art ("Art-Work")
• This Earth of Hours
• The Oath
• How Beautiful with Banners
• A Style in Treason (expanded from "A Hero's Life")
• Probapossible Prolegomena to Ideareal History (written under the pseudonym William Atheling, Jr.)