Narrative Growth

 

A single Okie story became the concluding fourth section of Earthman, Come Home which became Volume III of the Cities In Flight Tetralogy which, in turn, was collected in a single omnibus volume.

A single pantropy story became Cycle One of Book Three of The Seedling Stars, a single volume.

A single theological sf story became Book One of A Case Of Conscience which became Volume III of the After Such Knowledge Trilogy, eventually collected in a single omnibus volume.

A single Haertel overdrive story became the basis of the Haertel Scholium which includes A Case Of Conscience.

James Blish's Main Works

Blish's Four Main Bodies of Work

Cities In Flight

The Seedling Stars

The Haertel Scholium

After Such Knowledge

Haertel Scholium works either feature or refer, directly or indirectly, to Adolph Haertel.

After Such Knowldege, Volume III, A Case of Conscience, is a Haertel Scholium novel.

Blish's main bodies of work can also be listed as three future histories and three (Haertel-related) trilogies.

Future Histories

Cities In Flight

The Seedling Stars

The Haertel History

Trilogies

The Heart Stars Trilogy

The Quincunx Trilogy

After Such Knowledge