0034: Cities in Flight, by James Blish

We discuss the four-novel series “Cities in Flight” by James Blish in which entire cities lift off into space to search for economic opportunity. Then we argue the difference between conceptual and speculative science in fiction.

Links:

Cities in Flight by James Blish [1970]:
https://archive.org/details/citiesinflight00jame/mode/2up

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry on James Blish:
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blish_james

Wikipedia article on P.M.S. Blackett:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett

Wikipedia article on James Branch Cabell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell