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The songs of distant Earth / Arthur C. Clarke

The peaceful world of Thalassa is threatened by the arrival of a spacecraft carrying millions of refugees from a destroyed Earth. While the inhabitants face this cultural influx, an unexpected evolutionary event begins to stir beneath the ocean surface.

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