nasal voice until the Director had to exile him to the library except when business was being conducted;" (Black Easter, pp. 119–120) Baines has two employees, names also possibly based on science fiction writers: Jack Ginsburg - secretary Doctor Adolph Hess - Science Officer A reviewer of Black Easter said, of the book's California governor "Rogan": "A Californian governor named Rogan, which must be an allusion to [Ronald] Reagan", who was then Governor of California.<ref>David Ketterer. "Imprisoned in a Tesseract: Black Easter and The Day After Judgement' by James Blish", The Missouri Review vol. 7 no. 2 (1984). p. 254.</ref> Other people have suggested that Baines, the biggest arms dealer in the world in the book, is an allusion to then-U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, including Ted White in his review of the book. Blish replied to White's review, but did not comment on that claim. Grimoires and assorted texts mentioned Blish says in his foreword that all of the magical works and quotations mentioned in the text actually exist, as do the magical symbols reproduced, and "there are no Necronomicons or other such invented works". This is true insofar as Blish did not invent any of the works himself. The Book of the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup was invented by Talbot Mundy; it is the supposed source of the quotations at the beginning of each chapter in his novels Om — The Secret of Ahbor Valley (1924) and The Devil's Guard (1925).Ars Magna by Ramon LlullThe Nullity of Magic by Roger Bacon (this is a reference to Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae, which has been attributed to Bacon)The Book of Ceremonial Magic by C. A. E. WaiteEnchiridion of Pope Leo III (also known as the Grimoire of Pope Leo)The Effects of Atomic Weapons, compiled and edited by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. DolanThe Book of the Sayings of Tsiang SamdupGrand GrimoireGrimorium VerumClavicula SalomonisLemegetonThe Screwtape Letters'' by C.S. Lewis Notes References 1968 American novels 1968 fantasy novels British fantasy novels Novels by James Blish Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in If (magazine) Works based on the Faust legend Faber and Faber books Doubleday (publisher) books Novels about religion Religion in science fiction