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DISCID=e60d1411
DTITLE=Mike Oldfield / The Songs Of Distant Earth
DYEAR=1994
DGENRE=Electronic
TTITLE0=In The Beginning
TTITLE1=Let There Be Light
TTITLE2=Supernova
TTITLE3=Magellan
TTITLE4=First Landing
TTITLE5=Oceania
TTITLE6=Only Time Will Tell
TTITLE7=Prayer For The Earth
TTITLE8=Lament For Atlantis
TTITLE9=The Chamber
TTITLE10=Hibernaculum
TTITLE11=Tubular World
TTITLE12=The Shining Ones
TTITLE13=Crystal Clear
TTITLE14=The Sunken Forest
TTITLE15=Ascension
TTITLE16=A New Beginning
EXTD=Arthur C. Clarke C.B.E. was born in Somerset in 1917.\nIn a longa
EXTD=nd illustrious career, he has written over fifty\nbooks including
EXTD= '2001: A Space Odyssey'. He currently\nlives in Sri Lanka.\n\n'T
EXTD=he Songs Of The Earth' is my favourite book, and had a\ncurious -
EXTD=indeed, unique - genesis. Early in 1957, the\nyear the Space Ageo
EXTD=pened, the phrase "These are\nthe Songs of Distant Earth" poppedi
EXTD=nto my mind from\nnowhere. It kept circling inside my head, asSpu
EXTD=tnik was\nto go around the Earth six months later, and the only w
EXTD=ay\nof exorcising it was to sit down and hammer out a 12,000\nwor
EXTD=d novella, which was printed next year in an American\nsciencefic
EXTD=tion magazine.\n\nAnd there the matter rested until 1983, whenI d
EXTD=ecided to\nexpand the original story into a full length book.I se
EXTD=t myself\na deliberate challenge: was it possible to write adrama
EXTD=tic\nbut totally realistic novel about interstellar travel,in whi
EXTD=ch\nthe speed limit set by the velocity of light was accepted,\na
EXTD=nd journeys between stars took decades - or even\ncenturies?\n\nT
EXTD=he writing proceeded with corresponding slowness, and\nnot until 
EXTD=two years later was the novel sent off to the\npublishers. Bythen
EXTD=, I had departed almost completely from\nthe original story,and o
EXTD=nly the location and the basic idea\nremained. It would, ifI may 
EXTD=say so, make a wonderful movie,\nand indeed was once optioned by 
EXTD=Michael Phillips ('Close\nEncounters of the Third Kind', etc).\n\n
EXTD=In the introduction to the novel, I referred to 'Star Trek'and\np
EXTD=redicted that "No Warp 6 will ever get you from one\nepisode to a
EXTD=nother in time for next week's instalment. The\nGreat Producer in
EXTD= the sky has not arranged his programme\nplanning that way." Well
EXTD=, a major occupational hazard of\nscience-fiction writersis going
EXTD= out on a limb, which sooner\nor later may be sawn off. Witness t
EXTD=his item in the May 1994\nissue of a periodical you are unlikely 
EXTD=to find at your local\nnewsagents. 'Classical and QuantumGravity'
EXTD=:-\n\n"Long a cliche of science-fiction writing, the warpdrive\nh
EXTD=as transported countless fictional characters through\nlight-year
EXTD=s of interstellar space in the time it takes for you\norme to tra
EXTD=vel to the market." Unfortunately for real-world\nspacetravellers
EXTD=, the warp drive has always been thought\nto be inconsistent with
EXTD= the laws of physics. But all this has\nchanged.....Miguel Alcubi
EXTD=erre, a physicist at the university\nof Wales in Cardiff describe
EXTD=s a space-travel scenario that\nbears an uncanny resemblance to t
EXTD=he warp drive of\nscience-fiction. With Alcubierre's warp drive, 
EXTD=we could\nreach any place in the universe in as short atime as we
EXTD=\nplease!\n"The warp drive envisioned by Alcubierre ismade possib
EXTD=le\nby the subtleness of Einstein's general theory ofrelativity".
EXTD=\n\nWell, I hope Mr. Alcubierre is right, but I am a little\nscep
EXTD=tical. If warp 6 really is possible - where all the\ntourists? An
EXTD=other technological forecast in 'The Songs of\nDistantEarth', the
EXTD= Space Elevator, has fared rather better.\nBuilding this would re
EXTD=quire a material strong enough to\nstretch all the wayfrom statio
EXTD=nary orbit down to the\nEquator, without being snapped by Earth's
EXTD= gravity. Such\na material was discovered in 1993 bychemists at R
EXTD=ice\nUniversity, Texas: it's the tubular form of C60, better know
EXTD=n\nas Buckminsterfullerene. And by an extraordinary\ncoincidence,
EXTD= "Bucky" Fuller himself wrote the sleeve notes\nof myrecording of
EXTD= 'The Fountains of Paradise', the novel\nbased on this idea. What
EXTD= a pity he did not live to see the\ndiscovery of thematerial whic
EXTD=h now bears his name, and\nwhich may make this dream come true!\n
EXTD=\nSince the finale of the novel is a musical concert, I was\ndeli
EXTD=ghted when Mike Oldfield told me that he wished to\ncompose a sui
EXTD=te inspired by it. I was particularly impressed\nby the music he 
EXTD=wrote for 'The Killing Fields' and now,\nhaving played the CD of 
EXTD=The Songs of Distant Earth', I\nfeel he has lived upto my expecta
EXTD=tions.\n\nWelcome back into space, Mike: there's still lots of ro
EXTD=om\nout here.\n\n(C) 1994 Arthur C. Clarke\n\n'The Songsof Distan
EXTD=t Earth' was dedicated to my adopted\nSri Lankan family,which ha 
EXTD=YEAR: 1994 ID3G: 52
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