Songs from the Stars

by Norman Spinrad

Book Overview

Centuries after the big smash, the successor civilization of Aquaria more or less flourishes on the west coast of what was once the United States, a society built on White Science, following the "law... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671253263
• ISBN13: 9780671253264
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A chance for us yet

An enjoyable read. Post-Smash earth has pockets of society that find pre-Smash technology abhorent. They prefer the white magic of muscles, sun and wind. La Mirage skirts the grey magic by being a center of commerce where one can get supposedly pre-Smash white solar cells, etc. upon which their Way of life depends. Beyond the mountains, beyond the atomic ruins, a small enclave of scientists, using 'dark' science, support the vestiges of civilisation producing the items of trade while working to build a space shuttle to reach the Big Ear in space which may hold a message of hope for the future...