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This was not the first time that Mike's music had been connected with the books of Arthur C. Clarke.
Prior to ''The Songs Of Distant Earth'', Mike had released ''[[Tubular Bells II]]'', which featured a track called "Sentinel" — which also happened to be the title of a short story written by Arthur C. Clarke that later evolved into his most famous work, ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Another track from ''Tubular Bells II'' was called "Sunjammer". The Arthur C. Clarke
Meanwhile, other track titles from ''Tubular Bells II'' may be less direct references to space and science fiction — "Weightless" and "Dark Star", for example. ''[[Dark Star (film)|Dark Star]]'' was the name of a science fiction film by director [[John Carpenter]], released in 1973, the same year as the original ''[[Tubular Bells]]''.<ref name="Notes">[http://tubular.net/discography/TubularBellsII.shtml "Notes about Tubular Bells II"]</ref>
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