CITIES IN FLIGHT By James Blish

Published : 1970
Pages : 607
Overall Mark : 6/10

Colonel Paige Russell is hired by a large company to find soil samples on distant planets and bring them back to the company for study. His investigations soon lead him to discover some unusual facts about the bridges being built on Jupiter and an odd connection to an anti-gravity device called a spindizzy. Many years later, the spindizzies are being used to transport entire cities across the Universe in an attempt to both colonise other planets and also to get away from the Earth.

This is an odd science fiction novel to say the least. It seems to come from a political stand point and gives a lot of information without actually telling the reader a whole lot. It feels a lot longer than its 600+ pages, but can be entertaining in parts. I’d skim read the first section if I were you, the remainder of the books are a vast improvement.