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Cover artist
  
Lionel Dillon

Publication date
  
1957

Pages
  
185 pp

Author
  
James Blish

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1957

Publisher
  
Gnome Press

OCLC
  
7013015

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Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
James Blish books, Science Fiction books

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The Seedling Stars is a 1957 collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories concern the adaptation of humans to alien environments (a process Blish called pantropy). This may be viewed in contrast to the concept of adapting planetary environments to suit humans (terraforming).

Contents

Contents

  • "Seeding Program" (F&SF 1956)
  • "The Thing in the Attic" (If 1954)
  • "Surface Tension" (Galaxy 1952)
  • "Watershed" (If 1955)
  • "Seeding Program" was originally published under the title "A Time to Survive". "Surface Tension" was revised from its magazine publication, and here incorporates material from Blish's earlier story "Sunken Universe", published in Super Science Stories in 1942. The four stories are termed 'Book One', 'Book Two', etc. and some editions refer to this as a standard novel in four sections, rather than an actual short story collection.

    Reception

    Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as "a thought-provoking job." Anthony Boucher also received the book favorably, saying it "nicely illustrat[ed] the characteristic Blish balance between thinking and storytelling, with each reinforcing the other."

    References

    The Seedling Stars Wikipedia