The Songs of Distant Earth
 The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1986 and based on his short story of the same title which had been published in 1958. Clarke claimed that it was his own favourite among his novels. He also wrote a short movie synopsis with the same title published in The Sentinel.The novel tells the story of a utopian human colony in the far future that is visited by travellers from a doomed Earth as the Sun has gone supernova.