Songs of the remote Earth
Chants of the Remote Earth is the title various work of the author of Science-fiction Arthur C. Clarke. A short history, a short synopsis of film and in 1986 a news of Science fiction. This article speaks about the news.
Contrary to other work of Clarke, this news concentrates more on the feelings of the characters than them on the technological aspects. In a certain manner, this history is partly written in answer to the attacks of the critics who consider his writings like cold and impersonal.
History
The history is centered on an appointment, far in the future, after the destruction of the ground, between the human beings, on the oceanic planet Thalassa.
In the history humanity began its colonization of space using its advanced in robotics in order to perpetuating the survival of the terrestrial life after the destruction of the Earth. Thalassa was colonized by vessels colonizer but loses the contact with the remainder of humanity because of a natural disaster. Little before the destruction solar system the man invents a technology which allows the construction of a gigantic vessel which can move at a speed close to that of the light, the " Magellan" transporting the last colony of the mankind in a state of cryiogenisation] whereas the preceding ones comprised that frozen embryos and DNA.
On the way towards the new planet Ground named Sagan 2 fact a halt on Thalassa to repair the damage which the vessel underwent at the time of a meeting with interstellar remains. An small group is awaked to carry out this work. As Thalassa had not maintained in state their antenna of interstellar communication, its inhabitants are not with the current when Magellan enters their atmosphere. The news continues then with the impact of the meeting between the group and the inhabitants of Thalassa, their efforts to repair the vessel and more poignant the possibility of love beyond time and space.
Anecdote
The type-setter Mike Oldfield was moved so much by the news which it composed a whole album based on the news called The Songs off Distant Earth
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