Cities in Flight
Book 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…
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1 author picked Cities in Flight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this series largely because it was my father’s favorite book series growing up. He still had many of the same books from when he was a kid and passed them on to me later on. I was invested in the story from the moment I encountered the idea of entire cities uprooted from Earth, drifting through space to find new lives among the stars.
I love this book for combining the practicalities of economy and politics with the fantastical idea of flying cities. Blish doesn’t just tell a story about space travel—he creates a world where human ambition…
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