Cities In Flight
$49.18
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
James Blish’s galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousands of years - lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575094178 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0575094176 |
| Author: | James Blish |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 42mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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An outrageous imaginative coup…Crammed with high adventure yet illuminated by a searching intelligence, this four-part epic completely reinvented the traditions of space opera. - Paul J McAuley.
Of the first importance. - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.This is the real heady wine of science fiction - exciting, intelligent, galaxy-spanning stuff. - Terry Pratchett.About The Author
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 in 1959 for Best Novel, DOCTOR MIRABILIS, BLACK EASTER and THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT.
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