A Life for the Stars

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TitleA Life for the Stars
Year for Search1962
AuthorsBlish, James [Benjamin](1921-75)
Date Published1962
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

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.
Additional Publishers

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. 
Info Notes

The other volumes in the series, Earthman, Come Home. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1953; They Shall Have Stars. London: Faber & Faber, 1956. Rev. ed. as Year 2018. New York: Avon, 1957; and The Triumph of Time. New York: Avon, 1958. UK ed. as A Clash of Cymbals. London: Faber & Faber, 1959, are not utopian.
Holding Institutions

DLC
Author Note

(1921-75)
Full Text

1962 Blish, James [Benjamin] (1921-75). A Life for the Stars. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 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. The other volumes in the series, Earthman, Come Home. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1953; They Shall Have Stars. London: Faber & Faber, 1956. Rev. ed. as Year 2018. New York: Avon, 1957; and The Triumph of Time. New York: Avon, 1958. UK ed. as A Clash of Cymbals. London: Faber & Faber, 1959, are not utopian. DLC

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.