Year 2018! (1957) by James Blish. Cover art by Richard M. Powers
In Blish’s Year 2018!, locked in an endless Cold War with the USSR, a security-obsessed United States is a McCarthyite near-dictatorship.
Mankind has reached the nearby planets and colonies and research stations dot the Solar System.
In these fringe outposts, forbidden science discovers a new technology that will enable whole cities to escape the repressive Earth and travel among the stars.
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