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 Cities in Flight

Description

by James Blish

Precis

Cities in Flight is an omnibus volume of four novels written by James Blish, originally published between 1955 and 1962, which became known over time collectively as the 'Okie' novels. The novels feature entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device, the spindizzy. They cover a span of time of many hundred years, from a very near future to the end of the universe.

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Titles in series

Main sequence

1. They Shall Have Stars (aka: Year 2018!)  (1956)

2. A Life for the Stars  (1962)

3. Earthman, Come Home  (1955)

4. The Triumph of Time (aka: A Clash of Cymbals)  (1958)

Omnibus titles

• Cities in Flight  (1970)

• Cities in Flight vol. 2  (1991)

• Cities in Flight vol. 1  (1991)

Other titles in series

• Okie  (1950) (novelette)

• Bindlestiff  (1950) (novelette)

• Sargasso of Lost Cities  (1953) (novella)

• Earthman, Come Home  (1953) (novelette)

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