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Cities In Flight

James Blish author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:29th Mar '10

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One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780575094178

Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 42mm

Weight: 500g

640 pages