Star Trek 2 adapted by James Blish

Star Trek 2 adapted by James Blishadapted by James Blish Star Trek Original 1968 TV Series Adaptationspublication: Bantam Pathfinder 14th printing August 1973#: N8066Paperback4.2 x 7 inches, 122 pages
Contents1 "Arena", from teleplay by Gene L. Coon.13 "A Taste of Armageddon", from teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Robert Hamner.26 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", from teleplay by D. C. Fontana.41 "Errand of Mercy", from teleplay by Gene L. Coon.55 "Court Martial", from teleplay by Don M. Mankiewicz and Steven W. Carabatsos.71 "Operation: Annihilate!", from teleplay by Steven W. Carabatsos. Adapted as "Operation--Annihilate!"89 "The City on the Edge of Forever", from teleplay by Harlan Ellison.106 "Space Seed", from teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber.
James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 – July 30, 1975) 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. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies.
Blish was a member of the Futurians. 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. His other pen names included Donald Laverty, John MacDougal, and Arthur Lloyd Merlyn.
Blish was commissioned by Bantam Books to adapt episodes of Star Trek. The adapted short stories were generally based on draft scripts, and contained differing plot elements, and situations present in the aired television episodes.
The stories were collected into twelve volumes, and published as a title series of the same name from 1967 to 1977. The adaptations were largely written by Blish; however, his declining health during this period proved problematic. His wife, J. A. Lawrence, wrote a number of installments; however, her work remained uncredited until the final volume, Star Trek 12 published in 1977, two years after Blish's death.
The original novel based on the television series, Spock Must Die! (1970), was also written by Blish, and he planned to release more. According to Lawrence, two episodes featuring popular character Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd" and "Mudd's Women", were held back by Blish for adaptation to be included in the follow-up to Spock Must Die!. However, Blish died before a novel could be completed. Lawrence did eventually adapt the two episodes, as Mudd's Angels (1978), which included an original novella Business, as Usual, During Altercations by Lawrence.
Blish credited his financial stability later in life to the Star Trek commission, and the advance he received for Spock Must Die!.-----------------------In 1966, Bantam Books acquired the license to publish tie-in fiction based science fiction television series Star Trek.
Bantam published a series of novelizations based on episodes of the television series from 1967 to 1978. From 1970 to 1981, a range of original novels, anthologies, and reference books followed. Bantam also produced a line of photo comics which adapted popular episodes of the television series using full-color photographic stills.
Many of Bantam's Star Trek releases remained in print until 1991.