The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke

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The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. ClarkeFive hundred years before the events in The Songs of Distant Earth, Earth's sun went nova, destroying Earth and the other planets of the solar system. There was just enough warning to evacuate survivors in hyperships, each carrying one million sleepers in suspended animation, as well as the gene banks of plants and animals. The Magellan, experiencing considerable erosion from interstellar space debris, stops at the planet Thalassa to construct a new

But then Mars demands independence from Earth

now controlled by the Federation

In formal conclave they beg Carnelian's father to return with them to Osrakum to oversee the election of a new God Emperor

and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer

he faces certain death from the cold but one urgent question drives him onward

Here is an unusual dramatisation of the fierce battle between God's intention for Man and Satan's scheme to destroy it

that would break that control - and it happened by chance that two people

Edward Bryant

the Empires dominion will be challenged

knowing the havoc it can wreak in hands bent on revenge

stinking warship where officers

the Headmaster and quickly wins the favour of Brookfield's pupils through her kind good humour