I may simply be too far from my juvenile sci-fi stage to appreciate this. I enjoyed it well enough to read it through but only because it was a quick read.I find the real story of evolution to be a lot more fascinating than Clarke's imagined story. Novels need to reflect something on the human exp...
I'd read this book before, but not since I was a kid, so I didn't remember it all that clearly. This "anniversary" edition of it also included an introduction by Clarke that was rather interesting, talking about the writing of the book and the making of the movie. However, Clarke mentioned in this i...
I'd read this book before, but not since I was a kid, so I didn't remember it all that clearly. This "anniversary" edition of it also included an introduction by Clarke that was rather interesting, talking about the writing of the book and the making of the movie. However, Clarke mentioned in this i...
This book is a must have to anyone who loves SF. It's one of the classics and as you read you can figure it out. Of course the book is from 1968 and it's not so rich in terms of Hard Science as the books coming out today. Too much have happen in the world of Science and Science Fiction and this book...
I remember who lent me this book in HS, in what class, and the fact that I read the last page at his suggestion. That single page pushed me into a three to four year spiral of sci-fi reading that changed my life. perhaps not for the better or the worse, but changed I was. Mind-bending lit tends to ...
Unfortunately, most of the best bits in the movie aren't in the book. The first one I think of is the sequence where Bowman has finally arrived at Jupiter. In the book, it's Saturn, and the Monolith is in the moon Iapetus; this is clever, and from a scientific point of view a more plausible place to...
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