Clash of Cymbals
Series: Cities in Flight
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780099086604
Genres: Science Fiction.
Description: Earth is finished as a galactic power.  From the heart of the Milky Way come the first tentative strands of the Web of Hercules -- the strange culture that is destined to be the next great civilisation in the galaxy.  All this was of little concern to the contented citizens of New Earth, secure in their corner of the Great Magellanic Cloud.  Only Amalfi dreams restlessly of the old, nomadic days.  But then an old friend returns, bringing some unimaginably bad news...
Notes: Arrow #908660.
Cover by Chris Foss.