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 Cities In Flight, Volume Four by James Blish  To Lester and Evelyn del Rey Bismillahi ‘rrahmani ‘rrahim  Contents TOC \o 1-3 \n \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _ToPROLOGUE HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER ONE: New Earth HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER TWO: Nova Magellanis HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER THREE: The Nursery of Time HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER FOUR: Fabr-Suithe HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER FIVE: Jehad HYPERLINK \l _ToCHAPTER SEVEN: The Meta-galactic Center HYPERLINK \l _ToAFTERWORD: THE EARTHMANIST CULTURE: CITIES IN FLIGHT as a Spenglerian History HYPERLINK \l _To1. Blish’s Twenty-First Century: The Coming of Caesarism HYPERLINK \l _To2. Blish’s Twenty-First Century: Two Cultures or One?  PROLOGUE When the day that must come shall have come suddenly, None shall treat that sudden coming as a lie: Day that shall abase! Day that shall exalt! When the earth shall be shaken with a shock, And the mountains shall be crumbled with a crumbling, And shall become scattered dust, And into three bands shall ye be divided: ... Before thee have we granted to a man a life that shall last forever: If thou then die, shall they live forever? Every soul shall taste of death: ... But it shall come on them suddenly and shall confound them; and they shall not be able to put it back, neither shall they be respited. The Koran; Sura LVI, Sura XXI ... Thus we have seen that Earth, a planet like other civilized worlds, having a score of myriads of years of atmosphere bound history behind her, and having begun manned local spaceflight in approximately her own year 1960, did not achieve importance on a galactic scale until her independent discovery of the gravitron polarity generator in her year 2019. Her colonials made first contact with the Vegan Tyranny in 2289, and the antagonism between the two great cultures, one on its way down, the other rapidly developing, culminated in the Battle of Altair in 2310