2001: A Space Odyssey
June 1972 Arrow Books mass market PB, stated 4th printing. 4th in The Hebridean Quartet by Lillian Beckwith, illustrated by Douglas Hall. Ailing woman goes to the Hebrides to regain her health and falls an alien culture.
June 1972 Arrow Books mass market PB, stated 4th printing. 4th in The Hebridean Quartet by Lillian Beckwith, illustrated by Douglas Hall. Ailing woman goes to the Hebrides to regain her health and falls an alien culture.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780099066101 (0099066106)
Publish date: August 1976
Publisher: Arrow Books Limited
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Space Odyssey (#1)
Oh my god, this book was amazing. Such beautiful, intelligent writing. I loved Clarke's description of the planets, and his insertion of interesting relevant facts about them. The last part, Through the Star Gate, blew my mind.
“I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.”In "The Sentinel” by “Arthur C. Clarke"“The time was fast appr...
A completely different experience from the film. Whether or not it's lesser will depend on what you want from the basic story. I equally loved both.
This book certainly deserves its reputation as a classic science fiction novel. Although a fan of science fiction in general, I frequently don’t actually enjoy many of the “classics.” I used to skip over them when browsing at the library as a kid since I’d read the summary, shrug, and put the book ...
I saw the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, in 1968 when I was 12 years old. It was as incomprehensible to me as a child, as it was to most adults then. Even so, it was soon considered a classic science fiction film and I have spent most of life not really understanding why. I had heard that the book wa...
9 years ago
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