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In the story "Songs of Distant Earth" there are 10 known colonies of Earth, most of which have lost contact with Earth. Several planets are mentioned by name:
*Earth is the Mother world to the human race, destroyed 400 years prior to the story due to the Sun going [[nova]]. The ''Magellan'' was the last refugee ship to leave before the sun exploded. The word Earth is hard for the people of Thalassa to say due to its loss.
*Thalassa is the world on which most of the story takes place. It is an ocean world with three volcanic islands, and its own aquatic biota. The planet was colonized by a seed ship. The protagonists live on the south island of the three inhabited islands, and based on the limited physical descriptions and their names appear to of mixed ethnic background.
*Pasadena is a planet in orbit around [[Alpha Centari|Alpha Centauri A]]. Earth has lost contact with the colony there but it may still be thriving.
*Sagan Two is the destination of the star ship Magellan, located seventy-five light years from Thalassa. It is an untouched but Mars-like icy planet,<ref>page 51</ref> larger than Earth, with about forty percent ocean and a mean [[temperature]] of twenty-five degrees. The atmosphere has an oxygen content seventy percent of Earth's and it was named for science communicator [[Carl Sagan]].
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