-James Blish, "Seeding Program" IN Blish, The Seedling Stars (London, 1972), pp. 5-66 AT 1, p. 11.
Sweeney, in a spaceship on pp. 6-11, falls toward Ganymede on p. 11 and, after some reminiscences on pp. 11-14, remains on that Jovian moon until the end of this story.
On another Jovian moon, Jupiter V, Robert Helmuth, listening to inter-satellite ham radio, hears:
"A strong voice, and the impression of a strong transmitter wavering in and out to the currents of an atmosphere; that would be Sweeney on Ganymede."
-James Blish, They Shall Have Stars IN Blish, Cities In Flight (London, 1981), pp. 7-129 AT CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 89.
Same guy, right? Wrong. Can't be. Sweeney in "Seeding Program" is an Adapted Man. He has been genetically engineered to live on another planet, in his case Ganymede. There are no Adapted Men in They Shall Have Stars. And the political set-up back on Earth is completely different in both works.
But both Adapted Sweeney and Helmuth are involved in helping refugees to escape from the Solar System so their narratives parallel each other. These are different but similar works of fiction by a single author. Let us say that a "Sweeney on Ganymede" in the author's imagination splits two ways when the narratives are written.
Other phrases in The Seedling Stars paralleling Cities In Flight:
"'...ultraphone...'" (p. 109)
"'...an Oc dollar...'" (p. 111)
"Gods of all stars..." (p. 182)
The planet, Lithia, destroyed in 2050 in A Case Of Conscience, survives millennia later in The Seedling Stars. But, of course. This is a different timeline.
