The Songs of Distant Earth -

Arthur C. Clarke

Voyager

2001

238 páginas

7h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780007115860

Inglês

The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino, a particle with no mass and no charge. By the year 2001, the significance of this phantom particle was understood: it was a harbinger. A cosmic event was imminent, and would be close enough to touch. Soon the Sun would go nova; the demolition of Earth was assured. And so it happened in the year 3620. Over the centuries of knowing the end was at hand, humanity pulled together to launch probes into space. Primitive ships, at first, carrying embryos to distant systems, relying on machines to incubate and rear the first people of a virgin land beneath an alien sun. On Earth the Lords of the Last Days lived with no need to care for the future of the world; it was the wildest of times, and the saddest. Last to leave was the Magellan carrying a million homeless; when cataclysm struck, its voyagers witnessed through telescopes the death of Earth and all its wonders, saw the Atlantic boil dry, the pyramids disintegrate, the land of Antarctica briefly bare of ice before fire consumed everything. Then the million slept. Five hundred years later, the Magellan must make planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its sleepe

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Clarke sempre a frente do tempo

Não. Não é o melhor de Clarke. Mas sim, vale a pena seu tempo.
Intimista, discorrendo sobre a evolução da espécie e como seria o isolamento de mundos colonizados pelos humanos após séculos de inexistência de um mínimo contato. Isso é Clarke na essência.
O que admira é também a capacidade de designar a evolução das viagens espaciais em 1954 e extrapolar nas distinções entre a mesma espécie em locais diferentes.