The Triumph of Time (Vintage Avon SF, T-279)
Fourth and Final volume in the "Cities in flight" series. The wandering city of Manhattan has grounded itself, apparently forever, on a fair Earthlike world in the Greater Magellanic Cloud. But peace and prosperity are not the destiny of Mayor Amalfi. A conversation with the scientists of the...
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Fourth and Final volume in the "Cities in flight" series. The wandering city of Manhattan has grounded itself, apparently forever, on a fair Earthlike world in the Greater Magellanic Cloud. But peace and prosperity are not the destiny of Mayor Amalfi. A conversation with the scientists of the wandering planet He leads him off to explore no less than the birthplace of matter, the source of continuous creation. But, in fact, what they have uncovered is Judgment Day for mankind, and his universe!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380202799 (0380202794)
ASIN: 0380202794
Publish date: 1958
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 158
Edition language: English
The city of New York has now settled on a planet called 'New Earth', and John Amalfi, once mayor of the city in flight, is reduced to a mostly figure-head role. Until the astronomists spots the newly arrived planet He, a travelling planet outfitted with a spindizzy drive previously in the series. ...
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