Surface Tension

Surface Tension is a science fiction short story by James Blish originally published in 1952. Humans crash on a distant planet which is earthlike but completely water-covered; their ship is too damaged to take off, nor do they have sufficient supplies to survive for long. The humans create a race of microscopic aquatic humanoids to carry on their legacy before themselves dying off. The majority of the story concerns these creatures and their inte... more

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James Blish

James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. In the late 1930s to the early 1940s, Blish was a...
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