Cities In Flight
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:29th Mar '10
Should be back in stock very soon
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