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Wow! This was a very fun read! I loved it!
This book was really good concerning characters and their relationships. I loved reading their interactions and some of their personal issues.However, for some reason, the actual plot didn't get me hooked. Maybe one aspect of it was that we spent too few time on aspects I was interested in (e.g. Hal) but the things we spent time on too often just couldn't hold my attention. The last third was much more interesting to me, but I couldn't really say for sure what my problem was before that.I would
The second part was produced after the first volume of a series simultaneously as one of the most beautiful films by Stanley Kubrick. It projected us in 2010, ten years after the disappearance of Discovery and the astronaut's Dave Bowman and Frank Poole.In addition to continuing a fascinating story and extending Kubrick's remarkable film, this section allows you to deepen the notions developed in the first volume and explain a little more this famous last sequence, "beyond the stargate", has giv...
The enigma of the Spaceship Discovery lost in Jupiter's orbit ( the setting has been changed from Saturn in the original book, to match Kubrick's film). The imaginative Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001, has Dr. Heywood Floyd again recruited on a joint U.S. and Soviet, woops,(written in 1982) expedition, to the giant sphere, the numerous colors yep orange too, planet, to find out what happened. The crew of the Soviet ship Leonov consists of seven Russians and three Americans, with both male and
“Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do.”Funny that this innocuous kiddies’ tune always reminds me of a homicidal supercomputer. Arthur C. Clarke, in spite of being a sci-fi legend, is not known for his characterization, but HAL 9000 is one of the most memorable sci-fi characters ever, with his friend Dave Bowman not far behind.With 2010: Odyssey Two, we are back to “the future” which is now the past. Some people will be put off from reading this book because it is set six years ago and nothing lik...
As soon as I finished reading this I thought, man, I wish I didn't suck so badly at science, because being an astronomer would be SO FREAKING COOL.But I do suck so badly at science, so I just get to read wonders like this and wish I was half as good a writer as Arthur C. Clarke, who gets to be really friggin' smart in TWO CAREERS, which is totally unfair.There are several great things about this book. First, and one of the things that I love to read old sci-fi books for, is what Clarke in the 80...
Space Baby's Big Day Out.After the events in 2001 (Dave becoming a Space Baby, HAL being shut down while singing), the world is left in wonder about what happened out near Saturn..JUPITER! Sorry, Jupiter. Right? It was Jupiter all along.Dr Floyd, the bureaucrat who ventured to the Moon to check out TMA-1 is back and now he looks like Roy Schneider (who I see died in 2008 :( ). The Russkis are headed out to check out what happened slightly quicker than what the U.S. can manage. Oh how times don't...
The movie sequel is not as good as the original, but in many ways this might be Clarke's most polished effort. He actually takes the time to think out a plot and characters, and it's interesting to see what happens following the events in the first book/movie.
'...And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the field of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.'Guys, I think I've found my new favourite series... ever? These books are SO GOOD. The amount of work and research put into them is incredible and both the first book and this one have completely blown my mind. Proper review to come.
Better than I expected it to be, enjoyable, but it feels like it's missing much narrative drive.I mean, they're going to see TMA-2, close to Jupiter, and reclaim Discovery, but when they get there even the crew members seem to be unsure what to do next. It's all.. reactive.Generally it feels like a transitional novel.
I'll suggest the reader of this review to go through plot-summary of this novel and a little familiariation with its prequel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'll only be expatiating here on some aspects I found fascinating.Although, the novel contains many captivating sub-plots and a driving, gripping backdrop; I want to credit Arthur C Clarke for the most wonderful depictions of the Jovian system. Within the first half, he describes the bands of Jovian clouds, the cyclonic storms, the radiation belt an...
This novel is the direct continuation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in difference between the book and the movie it surprisingly follows the later. The novel was nominated for Hugo Award in 1983.The story starts were the previous book ends – there is a unknown alien artifact on a moon of Jupiter and one human already assessed it, vanishing from our space-time. Now a new mission is sent there. The mission uses Soviet ship Leonov and a joint USSR-USA team to get to the earlier ship and to the arti...
The first time I read 2010 was around 1987. I know this because that was the year that 2061: Odyssey Three was published in hardcover, and upon finishing 2010, I raced out and bought the new hardcover to read next.1987 was the time when I began a serious deep dive into science fiction, and reading in general for that matter. I was just out of a relationship that stopped just short of the altar, and my beloved grandparents had just passed away. Reading became an escape for me (it still is, whethe...
Both Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2010" and the film version directed by Peter Hyams are generally regarded as disappointments compared to its predecessor "2001". While I do find things to appreciate in both, I have to agree with the consensus. The book of "2010", like "2001", contains quite a bit more exposition and more subplots that were left out of the film for pacing or budgetary reasons.The first thing I notice is that Clarke's "2010" novel retcons the Discovery mission's destination in the f...
Better than the first book, and better than its movie. 2010 was very readable and accessible, and the wrap up of the HAL storyline was much more fleshed-out than it was in the movie.After the events of 2001, the derelict spacecraft Discovery is in a terminal orbit around the Jovian moon Io. 2010 follows a crew of Russian and American scientists who seek to retrieve its data and find out what went wrong with HAL, investigate the mysterious monolith in orbit nearby, and to send Discovery back to E...
A slow moving plot, the last 50 or so pages we get some results and some 'action', so to speak. However, HAL 9000 doesn't turn renegade as in 2001, as the sentient AI has been handicapped after the events of the first novel. In fact, the book is quite boring as no one ends up being killed and nothing much seems to go wrong, and in effect it just speculative Sci-Fi about Alien intellegences (this time on one of Jupiters moon - Europa). But the plant/hybrid intellegence does destroy a Chinese miss...
Boooooring. Having read the first book many years ago, one thing I remember with that story was just how dazzling and daring it felt. Much like the movie, certain images will forever be ingrained in my head. That Odyssey I loved journeying on. But this one, not so much. I mostly think it's all the characters, none of whom are interesting. Their voyage doesn't really seem all that harrowing in this story, and even if it was, I was so uninterested with the characters that I probably would have app...
Recommended for fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey"The Universe isn't just stranger than you ever imagined. The Universe is stranger than you CAN imagine." This novel is a slow-build, a slowly revealed unraveling of cosmic triggers. Clarke writes a narrative that doesn't just entertain--it informs, it elucidates and it expands the mind beyond its narrowly defined corridors. And that's the point.
3.5/5.The first half of the book was a 5-star read but the second half falters quite badly and the story never regained its footing, at least for me.
I found myself slightly more excited by this book than by its predecessor. Again there were parts, especially in the beginning, when the book really does feel like floating in space, and (just as the characters in the book are saying) space of course really is a sheer inconceivable cause for awe; yet, while its vastness will make you feel a bit lost, the story does a good job to give structure to space. In fact, when finishing it, I felt quite eager to get into the third book very soon (somethin...