Cities in Flight is a ground breaking book in the Sci-Fi genre, and unlike anything I've read before.
That's a pretty big opening isn't it?
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Blish's Cities in Flight takes us from the collapse of American civilisation at the moment of its greatest scientific success to its final transfiguration at a m...
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...
Blish'sCities in Flighttakes us from the collapse of American civilisation at the moment of its greatest scientific success to its final transfiguration at a mom...
Advantages: A very rewarding read Disadvantages: ...but a challenging one
Cities in Flight is a ground breaking book in the Sci-Fi genre, and unlike anything I've read before. That's a pretty big opening isn't it? The version that I picked up was the Sci Fi Masterworks version, meaning that I was expecting a book that would take me away from the usual concepts that I'd read previously, but I still wasn't prepared for this. Cities in Flight is made up of four books, all revolving the central theme of two discoveries that ... ...man and it's most productive cities leave Earth, what happens to Earth? And what happens to the cities? Some settle on other planets and make them their own, with their own belief structures and politics. Others travel the stars, landing on the occupied planets to offer services, whereas yet others become pirates, preying on the weak.
Similar questions are raised by the antiagathics. When should a person start taking them? And as there is a limited ...
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Cities in flight.
A life for the stars.
WARNING !!!
PLOT REVEALS AHEAD.
I - REPEAT - PLOT - REVEALS - AHEAD.
When the work runs out, cities begin to simply lift off into space looking for their future.
The main character in the story is Chris and one day whilst out spying on Scranton he is caught inside the spindizzy field as the city of Scranton begins its ascent into space.
His old life gone forever. All must contribute on the now space ... ...of Prof Boyle Warner. But he is no astronomer, so when scranton meets New York city he is swapped for some machinery.
On New York chis is adopted by the chief of police and given the special "gas" brain education with which the majority of pre earth history is revealed.
They land on a planet with where a feudal system reigns they are trading with the locals , chris and 2 police enforcers are captured as hostages and taken to a nearby castle but ...
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Advantages: Highly Engaging Disadvantages: You'll feel proud to be a Science Fiction reader
...take the liberty of recommending some further reading. I am personally a huge fan of the epic scale of JamesBlish’s 'Cities in Flight', another work of a supreme imagination, and Olaf Stapledon’s 'Star Maker' a book which was written in the 1930’s but provides a vivid and unique look at the future of the universe. Both of these books chart the end of history, raising interesting questions along the way and I will profile these marvellous works individually in due course....
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19.07.2001
