Cities in Flight (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: James Blish
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: 2012-4004
- Setting: Earth, Jupiter, various star systems in and beyond the galaxy, and the center of the universe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Cities or towns
- Locales: Space, Earth, Jupiter
The Plot
Much of the material making up Cities in Flight was published in other forms between 1950 and 1962 and in a different order from that presented in the completed tetralogy. The core of the story idea was published in a series of novelettes—“Okie” (1950), “Bindlestiff” (1950), “Sargasso of Lost Cities” (1953), and “Earthman Come Home” (1953)—which were revised and combined into Earthman, Come Home, the third novel in the chronological sequence. They Shall Have Stars, the first novel in the sequence, was formed by combining the...
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