JAMES BLISH - CITIES IN FLIGHT - PAPERBACK(ITB87)

JAMES BLISH - CITIES IN FLIGHT

THE SCI-FI CLASSIC IN ONE VOLUME

  1. They Shall Have Stars
   2. A Life for the Stars
   3. Earthman, Come Home
   4. The Triumph of Time

1 - (The first book in the Cities in Flight series) - 2018 AD. The Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research their desperate project is nearing completion.

2 - (The second book in the Cities in Flight series) - A young boy, Crispin deFord, ventures close to the domed city of Scranton that is preparing for take-off into space to find work and commerce and is press ganged by the city militia.
After training and becoming skilled in maintenance and repair works to the spindizzy engine, he is sent in payment for supplies onto the most remarkable of the flying cities, New York City

3 - (The third book in the Cities in Flight series) - When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways. Even John Amalfi never got used to the life - and he had been mayor of New York for nearly five hundred years now.

4 - (The fourth book in the Cities in Flight series) - In three years' time the two universes were doomed to inevitable, catastrophic collision! When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through inter-galactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation. They had lifted the curtain and caught an instant's glimpse of the unknowable. But to have looked it full in the face could have been no more fatal.for later, much later, they were to learn that t hey had also uncovered mankind's Day of Judgment!