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The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke 1987 UK Grafton PB 1st - Vintage
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “a fine copy”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Novel
- Vintage
- Yes
- Original Language
- English
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780586066232
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- Item Height
- 178 mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Topic
- Books
- Item Weight
- 138 g
- Item Width
- 111 mm
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780586066232
eBay Product ID (ePID)
86428479
Product Key Features
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Books
Book Title
The Songs of Distant Earth
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
178 mm
Item Weight
138 g
Item Width
111 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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