num_pages: 620
description: James Blish’s galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries -- antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousands of years -- lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.
language: English
title: Cities in Flight
titlecomplete: Cities in Flight (Cities in Flight, #1-4)
characters: John Amalfi
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 6346
series: Cities in Flight