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Posted 2015-06-20 8:35 PM (#10838 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		The Triumph of Time aka A Clash of Cymbals. Cities in Flight #4 by James Blish.

This is about the end of the universe.

This wraps up the Cities in Flight omnibus

Cities in Flight is on the SF Masterworks and The Classics of Science Fiction lists. I found it just so so. I was prompted to read this having read an outstanding short story by James Blish, written much later than Cities in flight, published in Harlan Ellison's anthology Again Dangerous Visions. I think he must have honed his writing skills in the intervening years. Cities in Flight is a collection of four novels written mostly in the 1950s. I think they weren't written in the order in which they occur in the series. The writing is uneven, and overall I'd rate it mediocre. The second book, A Life for the Stars, written in 1962, the latest publication date, was the best of the bunch.


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