@booklet {1851, title = {A Life for the Stars}, year = {1962}, note = {

UK ed. London: Faber \& Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234.\ 

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {G.P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75)} }