Cities In Flight

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Cities In Flight
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Blish
SeriesS.F. Masterworks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:640
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780575094178
ClassificationsDewey:813.54 813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gateway
Publication Date 29 March 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

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.