Late in the book there's a mentally picturesque meeting of humanity high above the plane of the galactic spiral arms.įor a while I thought the title was something like 'Earthsong, Star. Late in the book, humans paint the outside of their ships with scenes of Earth as a memory of what they lost. The book is somewhat written as a series of stories mapping the progress of humanity over time and how this hostile environment forces humanity to adapt in order to survive. Most of the rest of the book tells of how the psychic races of the galaxy attempt to take retribution on humanity while humanity attempts to flee from persecution by the galactic telepaths - this includes setting booby trap ships and planets.

They send out a telepathic distress message identifying humanity as the race guilty of their imminent genocide. They are not a technological civilization but a psychic civilization. This disrupts the orbits of the planets in that solar system - much to the detriment of the intelligent species living in that solar system. Our first test of the interstellar drive creates a black hole in the Alpha Centauri system. So humanity begins a crash course to develop interstellar drives and spaceships to move humanity. In the first chapter, scientists discover that no matter what humanity does, the Earth will become uninhabitable.

It is not 'The Survivor's' as suggested in the answer.Įarth is in desperate ecological shape. I have additional details of the story but do not know the author or title. I have the same question and the story is undoubtedly the same. Will man be allowed to atone, or must he strike back Hunted-tries time and again to found a new home, only to be destroyedĪnd driven to the fringes of a hostile universe by increasingly The reader will follow with fascination as man-the Realizing its doom, this race spreads a call for revenge throughout Man destroys a telepathic race while refining the Black Hole Drive. Blind to the existence ofĪny sentient race that has not developed along technological lines, Must perfect the power source for his Earth Ships-a drive based on theĬontrolled creation of black holes in space. Workable alternative but to emigrate from this 'bitter lesson calledīut there are dangers. That governs the remnants of the human race realizes that there is no

The year is 2100, and mankind has destroyed the earth's ecology.įaced with irrefutable evidence that the end is near, the technocracy Here's the summary from the inner flap of Earth Ship and Starsong: The first human starship accidentally destroys another civilization, which gives a telepathic alarm, and thereafter, humanity is hunted and destroyed whenever they gather summary sounds very familiar, though I haven't read the book since the 80s and don't remember exact details. This is almost certainly Earth Ship and Star Song by Ethan I.

Earthsong by Victor Kelleher