# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-blish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:36:13.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-blish"
name: "James Blish"
slug: "james-blish"
description: "James Benjamin \"Jimmy\" Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel A Case of Conscience won the Hugo Award. He is credited with creating the term \"gas giant\" to refer to large planetary bodies."
tagline: "American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/James_Blish_Signatures.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-05-23"
deathDate: "1975-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.185410334346505
  historical:           23.506956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0088493"
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    url:       "http://jamesblish.com/"
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    title: "James Blish"
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    title: "James Blish"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump