Lot of 2 Arthur C. Clarke : The Fountains of Paradise&The Songs of Distant Earth
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Lot of 2 Arthur C. Clarke : The Fountains of Paradise&The Songs of Distant Earth. King Kalidasa, tyrant of the second century, murderous usurper of an ancient kingdom, sought to reach heaven by creating his lofty Pleasure Gardens, with their towering fountains and the panorama of beautiful maidens. The Fountains of Paradise Sri Kanda, the Sacred Mountain rising majestically above the equatorial island of Ta-probane, bears silent witness to the hazardous lives of two obsessed men. King Kalidasa, tyrant of the second century, murderous usurper of an ancient kingdom, sought to reach heaven by creating his lofty Pleasure Gardens, with their towering fountains and the panorama of beautiful maidens. Two thousand years later, Vannevar Morgan, brilliant engineer of the twenty-second century, seeks to approach the stars through techno-logical daring that will open a new era in space travel. The Songs of Distant Earth Just a few islands nestled on a warm, planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise-home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships. Mankind had barely managed to flee before the Sun went nova and destroyed the Solar System.
