a life for the starsの例文
- The second, " A Life For The Stars ", is a coming of age story set amid flying cities.
- "A Life for the Stars " ( 1962 ) is a " bildungsroman " describing the adventures of sixteen-year-old Chris deFord, born when the above process of migration had already been going on for a considerable time.
- The city is imagined as a member of the class of interstellar Okies in James Blish's 1962 novel, " A Life for the Stars ", in which in 2273 AD Scranton, equipped with a space drive, flies away and leaves an impoverished Earth behind.
- Other writers to explore the cycles of civilisations in their works include James Blish, who studied the works of Oswald Spengler and whose novels " Cities in Flight ", " They Shall Have Stars ", " A Life for the Stars ", " Earthman Come Home ", and " The Triumph of Time " portray the rise and fall of the galaxy as an inevitable cycle, of which ( unlike in other dystopian SF stories of the 1940s and 1950s ) the use of machine technology is merely a symptom not the actual cause, and culminate, as in Wollheim's eighth stage, with the end of the universe and the birth of a new one.