Cities in Flight

Interesting Facts

• In this cycle, cities uprooted from their native land wander through space like giant arks, bearing the imprint of earthly culture and human destinies.
• In the novel's world, the discovery of the antigravity device—the spindizzy—turns cities into spaceships, allowing them to leave Earth and seek new destinies among the stars.
• The majestic flying cities become not only symbols of technological progress but also metaphors for the eternal search, exile, and longing for home.
• The narrative intertwines motifs of utopia and dystopia: city-states led by mayor-pilots are forced to survive in a harsh and often hostile universe, where former moral norms are put to the test.
• The author masterfully weaves philosophical reflections on time, power, and the cost of progress into the fabric of the story, creating an atmosphere of majestic melancholy and cosmic solitude.
• The cycle features a unique language and slang reflecting the evolution of human speech under the conditions of long cosmic wandering and isolation.
• Through the fates of the characters runs the theme of inevitable change and the fragility of human connections, when even entire cities become only temporary havens in the endless expanses of the universe.