num_pages: 319
description: Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise—home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas...Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.
language: English
title: The Songs of Distant Earth
titlecomplete: The Songs of Distant Earth
genres: Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Fiction, Short Stories, Space Opera, Fantasy
ratings_count: 15585
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books