Cities in Flight

Cities in Flight
Cover of the first omnibus edition, 1970.
AuthorJames Blish
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, Adventure fiction
Publication date
1955 to 1962
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
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. 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.[1] Since 1970, the primary edition has been the omnibus volume first published in paperback by Avon Books.[2] Over the years James Blish made many changes to these stories in response to points raised in letters from readers.

  1. ^ "Hugo Award Winners from the 2000s". Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
  2. ^ ISFDB publishing history