They Shall Have Stars

James Blish

1956 • 115 pages

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2018 AD. The time of the Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes that 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 . . .

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Cities in Flight

Cities in Flight is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1955 with contributions by James Blish.

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The book is okay. It does a decent job of setting up its characters, and establishing the technologies that will appear in future books in the series. However, always skates on the edge of turning into the Exciting Adventures Of Nothing Happening.

March 31, 2012