2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious...
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Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345358790 (0345358791)
ASIN: 345358791
Publish date: April 13th 1989
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 271
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Space,
Speculative Fiction
Series: Space Odyssey (#3)
This is the third book I have read by Clarke. Other two were 2001 and 2010.As far the book is concerned, it felt more like creating a base for some thing larger. Compared to 2001 and 2010 this is a disappointment. Other than few small suspenses, there is no major suspense in the story.
The spacecraft the Universe went to the comet the Halley. The astronauts discovered there life. The ship Galaxy is crashed onto the Europe, the prohibited satellite of the Jupiter, now Lucifer after transforming to the new star which was named Lucifer. The authorities on Earth ordered the Universe t...
This series is very rapidly taking a nose-dive. 2061 continues the story of Heywood Floyd as he returns to Earth in the wake of the Leonov mission and tries to find some meaning in his life in his elder years. The first half of 2061 reads like a novel of exploration. Floyd is tapped to be part of an...
Not that great, but still not bad. Could have been better if some of the chapters weren't so short.
Blah, blah, blah. I totally lost interest thirty seconds after I put it down.
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