Earthman, Come Home By James Blish 1955

Description: The product is a vintage paperback first edition titled "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish, published by Avon in New York in 1955. The book falls under the subject of Literature & Fiction, specifically in the genre of Science Fiction. It is an original edition in English, featuring softcover wraps, making it a collectible item for fans of classic science fiction literature. Earthman, Come Home combins the stories "Okie", "Bindlestiff", "Sargasso of Lost Cities" and "Earthman, Come Home". It describes the many adventures of New York under Amalfi, amongst a galaxy which has planets settled, at different periods of history, under loose control by Earth. After an economic collapse causes a galactic depression, New York ends up in a "Jungle", where Okie cities orbit a dying red giant star while waiting for work. Amalfi realizes that the "Vegan Orbital Fort", a semi-mythical remnant of the previously dominant alien civilization, is hiding among the Okies. His plan to stop the Vegans involves forcing the Okies to "march" on Earth, attracting the Vegan fort to join in the "march", and culminates in installing a spindizzy drive system on a small planet and using it to lead the march. When the march reaches Earth, a big fleet of armed Earth police ships appears from invisibility and summarily vaporizes the marchers, with at least one loss in the police fleet, because it is recorded that the flying city Buda-Pesht destroyed a police monitor. A mention of the "Battle of the Jungle" may mean that the Earth Police cleanup fleet then goes to the "Jungle" and destroys all that it finds there. Amalfi takes advantage of the vastly higher speed and size of the flying planet to destroy the Vegan Orbital Fort, then flies New York away before the Earth Police can catch them.

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