Cities in Flight
Author: James Blish
James Blish’s volume 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…..Read More
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