The Song of Distant Earth and Other Stories

The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favourite of all his novels.Clarke also wrote a short step outline with the same title, published in Omni maqazine and anthologized in The Sentinel in 1983.

The Song of Distant Earth and Other Stories

Arthur C.Clarke

Oxford University Press

2001

Abstract

The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favourite of all his novels.Clarke also wrote a short step outline with the same title, published in Omni maqazine and anthologized in The Sentinel in 1983.

The novel tells of a utopian human colony in the far future that is visited by travellers from a doomed Earth, as the Sun has gone nova. The Songs of Distant Earth explores apocalyptic, atheistic, and utopian ideas, as well as the effects of long-term interstellar travel and extra-terrestrial life.

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Arthur C.Clarke, The Song of Distant Earth and Other Stories, Oxford University Press, 2001.

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