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The songs of distant earth
Title:
The songs of distant earth
Author:
Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008, author.
ISBN:
9780345322401
Edition:
First U.S. mass market edition.
Physical Description:
319 pages ; 18 cm.
General Note:
Cover art by Michael Whelan.

First U.S. mass market edition May 1987.

"A Del Rey book"--Title page, title page verso, and front cover.

"Del Rey science fiction"--Spine.
Abstract:
When Earth is destroyed by the Sun's explosion, a few refugees escape on a starship that uses a new quantum drive. En route to an empty and hostile world they intend to colonize, they stop at a colony settled long ago that arouses their ambivalent admiration.
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