"Bindle"

[Dan Goodman]

On 1/7/2010 8:31 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> Wasn't there also a story named "Cities in Flight"? Or is that just a brainfart?

 From the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base http://isfdb.org:
     *  Cities in Flight
           o Cities in Flight (1970) [O/4N]
           o 1 They Shall Have Stars (1956) also appeared as:
                 + Variant Title: Year 2018! (1957)
           o 2 A Life for the Stars (1962) also appeared as:
                 + Magazine Appearances:
                 + A Life for the Stars (Part 1 of 2) (1962)
                 + A Life for the Stars (Part 2 of 2) (1962)
           o 3 Earthman, Come Home (1955) also appeared as:
                 + Magazine Appearances:
                 + Earthman, Come Home (Complete Novel) (1955)
           o 4 The Triumph of Time (1958) also appeared as:
                 + Variant Title: A Clash of Cymbals (1959)
                 + Magazine Appearances:
                 + The Triumph of Time (Complete Novel) (1961)

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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Robin Hamilton
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>>> "Bindlestiff" was also the
>>> title of a coverstory by James Blish, in Astounding(?) SF in the late
>>> '40's or early '50's.
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>>> -Wilson
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>> I must have come across this when it was reprinted as part of the third of
>> what became the Cities in Flight series -- _Earthman, Come Home_ (1955).
>> "Bindlestiff" was used to refer to a particular kind of flying city, as I
>> remember it.  The whole series drew on a range of background reference to
>> American workers' movements.
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>> Robin Hamilton
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