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James Blish

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They Shall Have Stars
Year 1956
Publisher Arrow  (Faber and Faber)
ISBN 0099086700
 

 

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Cities in Flight Book One

2018 AD.  The Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War.  The bureaucratic regimes which 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.

Then Colonel Paige Russell, back from deep space with some soil samples to deliver, talks his way past the receptionist at the laboratory ...

 

 

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Launch gantries on Missile Row, circa 1965

 

 

Credit: NASA

Missile Row
In a view from 1965, the full moon is out dazzled by the lights of the launch gantries on Missile Row, stretching north along the shoreline of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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