Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Blue paper covered boards have a darker blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Top edge of book has some very beginning spotting / foxing. Endpapers are a solid, dark mustard color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of extremely light bumping & rubbing. Front flap of dust jacket has one light veritical crease. Overall, a nice bright copy. "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. The people of Thalassa were happy, devoted to living well on their beautiful world."

Science Fiction Arthur C. Clarke Michael Whelan Space Travel Paradises Evolution Outer Space Space colonization Science Fiction