TY - BOOK AU - Bassett,Jennifer AU - Clarke,Arthur C. TI - The songs of distant earth: and other stories T2 - Oxford bookworms library. Fantasy & horror. Stage 4 SN - 9780194791861 (pbk.) AV - PE1126.B377 S6646 2008 U1 - 428.6 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford [England] PB - Oxford University Press KW - Readers KW - Science fiction N2 - 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa...' And with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain ER -