Cities in Flight - Hardcover

Blish, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585670081 ISBN 13: 9781585670086

Verlag: OVERLOOK PRESS * PENGUIN, 2000

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Long out of print, the science fiction masterpiece by Hugo Award winning writer James Blish

Originally published as four volumes nearly fifty 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. An armada of renegade cities attempts to destroy Earth, their ancient birthplace. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back in to space making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire Universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks the return to print of one of science fiction's masterpieces.

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James Blish (1921-1975) is one of the great science fiction writers of the twentieth century. His other novels include A Case of Conscience, for which he won the 1959 Hugo award for Best Novel, and two other novels in the After Such Knowledge trilogy, Doctor Mirabilis, and Black Easter and The Day After Judgment. His later work included the first twelve of the Star Trek novel series (all based on the original TV scripts) and Spock Must Die, the first original Star Trek novel.

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Blish's sf epic was originally published as four separate novels--They Shall Have Stars; A Life for the Stars; Earthman, Come Home; and The Triumph of Time--which became known over time collectively as the "Okie novels." The title of this edition is apt, as the thread of the story concerns entire cities that fly through space. All sf collections will want this.
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• Verlag: OVERLOOK PRESS * PENGUIN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1585670081
• ISBN 13: 9781585670086
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 590
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