This is the first book of a quartet, written in 1956, about space exploration around and beyond our solar system. Like in The Expanse series or say Rendezvous with Rama, humans in this book have colonized the planets of the solar system and have begun to grow stagnant with those achievements. There begins a series of developments that would allow interstellar travel and mass driving capabilities, and moreover, this would allow whole cities to be uprooted and converted into their own spaceships, so to speak. And […]
The shadows flickered on the walls to his left and right, just inside the edges of his vision, like shapes stepping quickly back into invisible doorways.
They Shall Have Stars by James Blish