Book Title: Shall have stars
Book Series: Cities in flight
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Arrow Books
Intended Audience: Young Adults,Adults
Type: Novel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: James Blish
Genre: Science Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Shall have stars, Earthman & Clash of Cymbals by James Blish 1974 Arrow
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Shall have stars
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 . . .
Earthman, come home
When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways. Even John Amalfi never got used to the life - and he had been mayor of New York for nearly five hundred years now.
Clash of Cymbals
In the era of
ANTI-MATTER
When the scientists of the wandering planet HE - in their journeys through the furthest reaches of inter-galactic space - heard the sounds of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of NOTHING, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation.
But they didn't know until later, much later, that they had uncovered mankind's Day of Judgement.
Following up the Hevian's discovery, scientists of New Earth learned of the existence of a Universe based on Anti-Matter energy - a chemical and physical structure so antagonistic to their own Universe that the slightest contact meant instantaneous oblivion for both worlds.
In desperation, the scientists joined forces to create a missile to explore this mysterious and hostile Anti-Matter Universe.
But when the missile returned the scientists learned one awesome fact: In three years time the two Universes were doomed to inevitable, catastrophic collision!
