The Songs of Distant Earth
Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....
Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780345332196 (0345332199)
ASIN: 345332199
Publish date: May 12th 1986
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Short Stories,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Hard Science Fiction
Completely unimpressive. Too much romance and drama, not enough action. Add quite a bit of sexual content and far too short chapters, and this is one book I certainly can't recommend.
Well written, engaging and intriguing as always, but it just ended. *sigh* I like my books wrapped up in neat little packages at the end.
The Songs of Distant Earth is an intelligent science-fiction novel with a, rare for the genre, character driven story.With the Sun about to die, the people of the earth build seed ships to save humanity, sending them across the galaxy to populate habitable planets. One of these planets is Thalassa, ...
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