Series
Cities in Flight
James Blish · 4 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes · 1950–1962
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. The series features entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device, the spindizzy. The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe. One story, "Earthman, Come Home", won a Retro Hugo Award in 2004 for Best Novelette. Since 1970, the primary edition has been the omnibus volume first published in paperback by Avon Books. Over the years James Blish made many changes to these stories in response to points raised in letters from readers.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Cities in Flight at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s9
- 1960s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Triumph of Timedarkest
- A Life for the Starsbrightest
- They Shall Have Starscalmest
- Bridgemost intense