Songs of Distant Earth-Arthur C. Clarke

The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.Vintage 1986 1stEdition/1stPrinting Del Rey/Ballantine Books hardcover w/dj in good condition(bumping on top corners of hardcover,discoloration of top of pages, please see photos).Book dimensions are 9.1×5.9×1.1 inches,1.3 lbs.,256 pages.Sir Arthur Charles Clarke(1917-2008)was most noted as a SciFi author,science writer,and futurist.An advocate for space travel and exploration,his belief was "Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.Both are equally terrifying."In this SciFi story,Clarke constructs a tale involving the destruction of our Solar System as its Sun goes"nova"in the 3800's.Anticipating this event,a series of stored human DNA is sent to other Solar Systems to colonize planets using robotic technology.The successful and peaceful human colonization of the planet Thalassa is disrupted when the spaceship Magellan arrives containing 1 million survivors of the last mad days of Earth.A tribute to the literary genius of Clarke