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Book Review: They Shall Have Stars (Variant title: Year 2018!), James Blish (1956)

November 13, 2010June 20, 2016 / Joachim Boaz / 5 Comments

3.75/5 (Good)

They Shall Have Stars (1956) is the first of James Blish’s famous Cities in Flight novels (note: the series was not released according to its internal chronology — the third volume, Earthman Come Home was published first in 1955). Continue reading →

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