by Arthur C. Clarke
In 2010 we head back out to Jupiter to retrieve the abandoned Discovery and further investigate the monolith, or whatever you want to call it. Yes, that’s Jupiter not Saturn because Clarke decided to follow the film canon for 2001 rather than the book. I was a little disappointed by this but I’ll ce...
The book was really good. Reading this was as if a revision of things i learnt about space long time ago. Loved the way the worlds are described and the way ship was maneuvered around IO and Jupiter.
A rescue spaceship, Leonov with the USA, Russian and Indian cosmonauts is launched toward the Jovian satellite IO where they would save the abandoned ship the Discovery from the collision with the IO. The Chinese ship, Tsien wants to be the first. They planned a trick, they first went to the Europ...
With 2010, Arthur C. Clarke's ability to write interesting, believable, and likable characters has improved dramatically, particularly compared to the cardboard cutouts from Rendezvous with Rama, and the similarly bland characters (with the exception of HAL) from 2001. The book also does a great job...
2010, surprisingly enough spends the bulk of its pages devoted to reliving and retconning the events of 2001 due to content conflicts with the film version. Fairly enough, Clarke opts to treat the film version of events as canon and attempts to broaden the story from the personal one told in 2001 of...
Rather lacklustre and definitely not as engrossing as its prequel.
Not bad, although it still could have been better.
I liked this one better than the original 2001: A Space Oyssey which ws fairly awesome too. It's a fun combination of science fiction, mystery and philosophy. Clarke is always best when he is looking beyond the hard science and into the mystic.
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