Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Del Rey, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. Of all of his novels, Clarke stated that this was his favorite. The story is set on a distant planet whose society is disturbed by the arrival of the last survivors from a destroyed earth. Some sunning to rear of dust jacket. Clean copy.
