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The Songs of Distant Earth Book

With the imminent death of the Sun, human beings launch embryos into space, hoping to keep the race alive. Years later, another group of human beings set off into space and touch down on the same planet, but they discover a phenomenal clash of cultures. From the author of 2061: ODYSSEY THREE and 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY.Read More

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  • Foyles

    From the world’s most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond.The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino, a particle with no mass and no charge. By the year 2001, the significance of this phantom particle was understood: it was a harbinger. A cosmic event was imminent, and would be close enough to touch. Soon the Sun would go nova; the demolition of Earth was assured. And so it happened in the year 3620.Over the centuries of knowing the end was at hand, humanity pulled together to launch probes into space. Primitive ships, at first, carrying embryos to distant systems, relying on machines to incubate and rear the first people of a virgin land beneath an alien sun. On Thalassa, after a journey of 200 years, a colony blossomed, only to fall silent again.On Earth the Lords of the Last Days lived with no need to care for the future of the world; it was the wildest of times, and the saddest. Last to leave was the Magellan carrying a million homeless; when cataclysm struck, its voyagers witnessed through telescopes the death of Earth and all its wonders, saw the Atlantic boil dry, the pyramids disintegrate, the land of Antarctica briefly bare of ice before fire consumed everything. Then the million slept.Five hundred years later, the Magellan must make planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its sleepers awake to find themselves visitors to Thalassa, where a cvilization has, in fact, survived. A clash of cultures unlike any before brings danger, despair, and some very tough decisions for two different peoples far from Earth – and its distant songs.

  • Blackwell

    From the world's most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond. From the world's most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond. The countdown to doomsday began with...

  • 0586066233
  • 9780586066232
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • 2 November 1998
  • Voyager
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • (Reissue)
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