trying to remember a book name ship earth??

[David]

I read the book when I was young and can't remember the name it took place when the world was in such bad shape that people were being selected as small to lower their foot print. A black hole transport technology was developed to flee the earth and was sent to a different star to test and but when it was tested and came back to earth it destroyed the star which happened to be inhabited. The rest of the universes people were psychic and could tell when this happened and they chased humanity from star to star. It was called some thing like star ship earth
dose any one know the name?

[Boots]

My guess is Earth Ship And Star Song.

[Kris]

Boots got it...

[David]

I think that's correct the cover looks correct I could not find a summery of the book I have requested it from the library
Thanks

[Boots]

I'll take 'Space Operas' for $200, Alex.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

Good job Boots :-)


David wrote: "I think that's correct the cover looks correct I could not find a summery of the book... "

Here is a review I found: (Sounds like Boots is spot on)
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-rev...
"Shedley has one of the most original imaginations among today's fledgling sf writers; at this stage he hasn't quite figured out what to do with it. His basic idea here is a prolonged vendetta of alien races against humanity, which unwittingly obliterated an inhabited solar system while trying out an interstellar drive. Over the next few eons, mankind--long gone from what was once Earth--tries various strategies to escape the planet-incinerating attacks of the aliens: pretechnological camouflage, relocation to vast shipboard communities, energy-reflecting weapons. And along the way to mankind's final triumph, Shedley hatches wonderful notions--computer-programming through song; an 80-pound Siamese cat bred for wildlife management; a ship's communication program which converses in irreverent pidgin English. These inspirations practically fall over each other, but Shedley never finds the right proportions for his major episodes; they ought to add up to a story, but mostly they just drift around like chunks of matter in free fall. Uneven, then, but alluring."