Title: good story, if occasionally slow
Product review: This is a very good hard sci-fi novel, about a colony of humans on a distant planet that is visited by the remnants of the human race fleeing catastrophe. Having been seeded long long before, this colony had lost touch with the home world and developed a culture of its own, highly civilised and quite benign - they are peaceful and pursue their pleasures in an open and innocent way. However, underneath their oceans, an incredible transformation is taking place, perhaps one of the most significant in the history of the human race. Then the fleeing ships arrives, shaking things up with new ideas and desires. While avoiding spectacular adventure, this quiet novel is quite fascinating and chock full of intricately related ideas and systems, which are what Clarke portrays the best.Warmly recommended. It is an intellectual adventure to read this.
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