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nvek86 · November 25 2011, 04:33 PM

Recently finished Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth". While not my favourite book of his (that would be either "The City and the Stars" or "The Fountains of Paradise"), it was still a great read. As usual there were a lot of great ideas and moments, two especially stood out for me:

November 25 2011, 04:33 PM	#64
nvek86 Commander	Re: What SF/F Book Are you Reading? .. Redux Recently finished Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth". While not my favourite book of his (that would be either "The City and the Stars" or "The Fountains of Paradise"), it was still a great read. As usual there were a lot of great ideas and moments, two especially stood out for me: The first was the destruction of Earth, which was spooky and beautiful at the same time. The second was the discovery of the farming grounds of the sporcs, which I really didn't expect.