Cities in Flight - James Blish Reviews

Cities in flight. =========== Chris is a nosey teenager and one day that nose gets him into trouble. He is snooping around the outskirts of a town called Scranton hoping to see the town 'lift off' as it launches itself into space but he misjudges and is inside they Spindizzy field when they engage themselves and he is carried up ...  Read the complete review

Cities in flight. A life for the stars. A small review for a small book, well the author didn't have much to say and neither have I. Synopsis: 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 ...  Read the complete review

The ‘SF Masterworks’ series, by The Orion Publishing Group, covers some sixty plus years of science-fiction writing, boasting a collection of novels from authors such as Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, Alfred Bester and many, many others. ‘Cities In Flight’ is the third book of the series and was written by ...  Read the complete review

I'm a very contrary reader. Sometimes I pick something of the SF shelves of a bookshop, look at it, and wonder why they can't just tell a human interest story for once, instead of all this derivative, meaningless, dissociated nonsense they don't really understand themselves; remembering Sagan's description in Contact of the mission ...  Read the complete review

A Millennium SF Masterwork originally published in four volumes, here reprinted in the order in which they occur within Blish’s imagined history rather than the order in which they were published, Cities in Flight is one of the few novels I have read where I thought the high page-count (604 pages; I normally refuse to touch any novel over ...  Read the complete review