More classic Sci-Fi from the archives. Cities in Flight was written by James Blish between 1950 and 1962 and consists of four books . So far I'm surprised how fresh and dark the book feels compared to other books from that era. In the first book his future world consists of two authoritarian super powers - the communist Soviet Russia and the capitalist USA supervised by the FBI. You have great companies competing for government and military funding. Ruthless biotech companies, weird experiments on Jupiter, loads of unemployed people and really annoying religious fundamentalists. This is a book that has influenced writers like Iain M Banks, Greg Bear, Ken MacLeod and Stephen Baxter. It's smart, visionary and epic Sci-Fi from the late 50's.
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I am going to look for all of these, too! I'm inspired now to read some of these classics! Thanks for sharing!
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