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Clarke’s classic of far-future SF: the starship Magellan visits the ocean world Thalassa, a human colony seeded centuries earlier, to replenish its ice shield before continuing a one-way voyage. What follows is a quiet, luminous story about exile, love, and what humanity chooses to carry to the stars. First US edition, May 1986, Del Rey. Dust jacket shows light shelf/edge wear and small corner/edge nicks. Textblock edges show age toning/foxing; boards and binding solid. No writing or highlighting seen on a quick flip. See all photos for exact condition. #ArthurCClarke #TheSongsOfDistantEarth #DelReyBooks #FirstEdition #FirstPrinting #VintageBooks #1986Books #Hardcover #DustJacket #ScienceFiction #ClassicSciFi #SpaceColonization #Starship #BookCollectors #CollectibleBooks #Bookstagram #BookTok #SciFiBooks #80sSciFi #RetroSciFi box 2