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BookTrackr highlights the books you've read, your favorites, what you're reading now and what you want to read next. Full Details Added By: Administrator Last Updated: Engelbrecht Cities in Flight Author: James Blish Publisher: Overlook Press, 2000 Gollancz, 1999 Avon, 1970 Series: Cities in Flight This book does not appear to be part of a series. If this is incorrect, and you know the name of the series to which it belongs, please let us know. Submit Series Details Book Type: Omnibus Genre: Science-Fiction Sub-Genre Tags: Space Opera Space Exploration Generation Ship If you liked Cities in Flight you might like these books. 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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, A Clash of Cymbols (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. Excerpt No excerpt currently exists for this novel. Be the first to submit one! Submit an Excerpt Reviews Cities in Flight - spectru (6/20/2015) Cities in Flight - devilinlaw (11/17/2015) Cities in Flight - Sable Aradia (12/3/2015) Cities in Flight - b-rad (4/7/2021) Images No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel. Be the first to submit one! 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