James Blish : Black Easter : Fantasy : Black Magician Assassination US Politics

Black Easter

By James Blish

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1968. First UK Edition. Hardback book in dust jacket, 8vo, 165 pages.

Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth for a single day. The novel initially depicts the assassination of a Governor of California by a black magician working as a contract killer. The same magician is then hired to release every demon in Hell for a brief time period. However, the demons cannot actually be returned to Hell by the end of the novel. 

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. His first published stories appeared in Super Science Stories and Amazing Stories. Blish wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr.

CONDITION
A very good first UK edition. The dust jacket remains unclipped and in good condition with a little rubbing to the spine ends. Cloth binding very good. Endpapers good. No names or writing. Pages clean throughout. Overall a very good copy.

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