The Songs of Distant Earth

Arthur C. Clarke First published 1986

About this book

The paradise of Thalassa is threatened by an evolutionary event brewing beneath the calm seas and by a spacecraft of refugees hovering in orbit above the planet. The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa.

Subjects

  • english science fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, science fiction, general
  • long now manual for civilization
  • refugees
  • space colonies
  • young adult fiction