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The Songs of Distant Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

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Centuries after the discovery of the neutrino warned humanity that the Sun would go nova and Earth would be destroyed, humanity launched probes carrying embryos to distant star systems, with machines to incubate and raise the first generation of colonists beneath alien suns. In the early 3800s, one such colony has grown into a thriving human settlement on the oceanic planet Thalassa, founded by an ancient robotic mother ship. For centuries the settlers have enjoyed an idyllic existence, unaware of events beyond their own ocean world. That changes when the starship Magellan, carrying a million refugees from Earth's final days, must make planetfall on Thalassa to repair its quantum drive - and its sleepers wake to find a civilization already living there. The resulting clash of two very different human cultures brings danger, despair, and difficult choices for both peoples.

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Publisher
Oxford University
ISBN-13
9780194230469
Topics
Survival of humanityColonization of alien worldsCultural clash

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