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Cities in Flight

Cities in Flight

by James Blish
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/01/2005

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Originally published in four volumes nearlyfifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a brilliant and bleak look at a world where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life. In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, man has thoroughly explored the Solar System, yet the dream of going even further seems to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries anti-gravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and antigravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, historyrepeats itself as the cities once again journey back in to space making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire Universe. A serious andhaunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks the return to print of one of science fiction's most inimitable writers. A Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club
ISBN:
9781585676026
9781585676026
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-01-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Abrams, Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x139.7x45.72mm
Weight:
0.52kg
James Blish

James Blish (1921-75) studied microbiology at Rutgers and then served as a medical laboratory technician in the US army during the Second World War.

Among his best-known books are Cities In Flight, A Case Of Conscience, for which he won the Hugo Award in 1959 for Best Novel, Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter And The Day After Judgement.

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