... 2061 Doesn't disapoint in this respect. Clarke has a knack for retaining the same thrilling and mysterious atmosphere and premise of 2001 and 2010 whilst shifting the focus of the story to new characters and new aspects of space travel.
It always amazes me how Clarke makes his narrative ... Read review
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Advantages: more of the same, better? Disadvantages: is he covering old ground
...advanced from the previous outing. 2061 Doesn't disapoint in this respect. Clarke has a knack for retaining the same thrilling and mysterious atmosphere and premise of 2001 and 2010 whilst shifting the focus of the story to new characters and new aspects of space travel.
It always amazes me how Clarke makes his narrative so accecable, readable and believable, and his attempts at predicting the advances in communications and technology ... ...what I like about the odyssey series is that each novel is not too long. It seems that since clarke helped make the benchmark for hard sci-fi fiction, novels have been increasing in size to gastronomic proportions, just look at peter f hamilton, kevin j anderson, alistair reynolds and co. Not that these authors don't create masterpieces of their own, but it is nice to read a book that doesnt take too long to read and still deiverse a satisfying, ... more
Having read the previous two books in the odyssey series I was expecting more of the same... that is something slightly different and advanced from the previous outing. 2061 Doesn't disapoint in this respect. Clarke has a knack for retaining the same thrilling and mysterious atmosphere and premise of 2001 and 2010 whilst shifting the focus of the story to new characters and new aspects of space travel.
It always amazes me how Clarke makes his narrative so accecable, readable and believable, and his attempts at predicting the advances in communications and technology through his narrative are impressive.
Also what I like about the odyssey series is that each novel is not too long. It seems that since clarke helped make the benchmark for hard sci-fi fiction, novels have been increasing in size to gastronomic proportions, just look at peter f hamilton, kevin j anderson, alistair reynolds and co. Not that these authors don't create masterpieces of their own, but it is nice to read a book that doesnt take too long to read and still deiverse a satisfying, deep and profound story.
Those who enjoyed the first two in the series should enjoy this book. the main themes are as usual with Clarke: humanities stumblings into the solar system, the social and philosophical impact of the presence of other life forms in our universe & human relationships.
Some might argue that the same themes and ideas are being covered in this text, and to a degree this is true, but also we see individual characters, humanity and Clarke's own synthesis of modern scientific thinking develop into an intriguing continuation of the odyssey.
Advantages: easy to pick up Disadvantages: feels outside the overall story arc
The events of 2061 portray the first landing on Europa after it was declared off limits by the monolith after the events of 2010.
A ship crash lands on the ice moon and another has to rescue it leading to contact being made with the monolith once again.
Overall this is one of ArthurCClarkes weaker books, what should be a story which expands on the overall story arc feels more like an individual episode. It is still well written and has its moments of excitment but I feel that he should have concentrated more on the monolith mythos that he began crafting so well in the first two books (2001 and 2010 the year we made contact).
The plus point of this is that this book could be easily picked up by someone who has not read any of the others. ...
Advantages: You gain a lot more from it than the film Disadvantages: none
these types of books its science fact rather than fiction, the concepts are plausible and have indeed actually happened in real life, another reason why I enjoyed the novel so much.
~~Conclusion~~
After reading the novel I watched the film again and it all made a lot more sense, and was all so much clearer. I can?t help but recommend the book, even if you didn?t like the film, in fact because you didn?t like the film.
This was the first time I read anything of ArthurCClarke, and was mightily impressed, I have since read, 2010, 2061 and have 3001 to read, and I?m also planning to read more of his books, I really liked it.
So if you didn?t understand the film that much then this is really worthwhile. Its well written and very enjoyable. I wholly recommend it.
Seagulls Lost Horizon ...
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Product details
EAN
9780586203194
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Title
2061
Author
Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN
0586203192
Manufacturer's product description
Arthur C.Clarke's space saga contines in 2061 when an Earth vessel landing on Halley's Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth. Arthur C.Clarke one of most popular science fiction writers of the 20th century has written over 50 books including The City and the Stars" "Rendezvous with Rama" "Childhood's End" "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "2010: Odyssey Two"."
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