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The novella "Sargasso of Lost Cities", Blish's third "Cities in Flight" story, was originally published in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1953.. Cities in Flight is a four-volume series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels.
James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 – July 30, 1975) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence.
The Cities in Flight series (1950–1962) by James Blish propose a universe in which cities cast adrift from the Earth, powered by a fictional spindizzy drive. In the novel The Ringworld Engineers (1979), Louis Wu seeks a way to save the Ringworld by bartering for information in the library of a floating city.
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Cities in Flight by James Blish are Earth cities which though the invention of the Spindizzy are able to take off into space, leaving an impoverished Earth behind, and wander the galaxy as independent "okie" cities. [3] Columbia (Bioshock: Infinite) Cynosure (First Comics multiverse) Diaspar in The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Besides cylinders, space habitats in fiction also come in the shapes of spheres, wheels, and hollowed-out asteroids, among others. A more unusual depiction is seen in James Blish's 1955 book Earthman, Come Home—as well as the rest of his Cities in Flight series—where they are cities roaming through space. [1]
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