The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino a particle ... more
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...
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Five hundred years later after the Earth is consumed in flames, the Magellan must make ... more
planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its million sleepers awake to find themselves visitors to Thalassa, where a civilization has, in fact, survived. There is a clash of cultures unlike any before.
With the imminent death of the Sun, human beings launch embryos into space, hoping to keep ... more
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.
This book starts out as a normal sci-fi adventure, but soon turns into a drama.
The beginning is about a kid, Duncan, on one of Saturn's moons, Titan. He dreams of space, methane monsters, etc. The book quickly progresses to Duncan's adult life and a trip to Earth, which has more gravity than Titan. This book gives a good idea of a person's thoughts, feelings, etc. as he visits Earth for the first time and encounters horses, sunlight, the sea and other 'normal' things (but only to us). Duncan discovers that someone is trying to sell Titanite, a rare gemstone found on Titan, all sales of this must be registered with a government but no one knows about the illegal sales except a gem dealer. I won't say anymore so as not to spoil it for anyone who wants to read it except this; your theories will probably be wrong...
Overall the book ...
Advantages: The Sentinel Disadvantages: My God, it's not full of stars...
Reading recently about the golden age of science fiction, theediscerning realised he ought to go one better and actually read some of the fiction involved. Of course, however, there have been at least two golden ages, depending on whose reckoning you use. First the original spawning of the genre on a large scale with the 1920s and '30s American short story magazines, then the period a few years later when the big names emerged.
And of those none is bigger, on this side of the Atlantic at least, than ArthurCClarke. Bejaysis, he's British for one (or was until he became a naturalised Sri Lankan), he invented the geostationary satellite and helped develop RADAR to beat the Jerries. He did well-liked TV in the '70s about the arcane mysteries of our world, dives with dolphins and advocated earth-to-moon cargo escalators. You just have ...
Advantages: Imaginative and thought provoking Disadvantages: Dull and predictable characters
ArthurC. Clarke (16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist probably best remembered for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick during the making of the film of the same name. He also participated in a number of television series in the 1980s, the most notable being ArthurC. Clarke's Mysterious World. Rendezvous with Rama was published in 1973 and at the time received much critical acclaim winning various literary awards including the Hugo, Jupiter and Nebula.
When a huge meteor strikes Northern Italy in the 2077, the cities of Padua, Verona and Venice are wiped out and the world's leading scientists and politicians are forced to get their heads together and create an early warning system called Spaceguard to track all potential ...
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EAN
9780007115860
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Title
The Songs of Distant Earth
Author
Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN
0007115865
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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 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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