Advantages: very easy to read Disadvantages: it's kind of short
...I'm not a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke but Childhood's End is in my top 10 Favorite Books of All Time. It has everything. Mystery, suspense, originality,drama,aliens etc. Even though the idea of apocalypse isn't new, Clarke is original by bringing a possib ...
Advantages: If you liked the first you’ll like this Disadvantages: Its not as good
...can you follow on from such a masterpeice as both the film and book of 2001 A Space Odyssey was?, well you can try, but will you succeed?.
2010 Odyssey Two, follows on from the film rather than the book of 2001 A Space Odyssey (the only real dif ...
Advantages: will stand the test of time. Disadvantages: absolutely none
Way out in space, close to the moons of jupiter, the spacecraft Discovery floats, close to the alien monolith. The russian rescue craft Leonov is sent from earth, with a combined American and Russian scientific team on a mission to investigate the myste ...
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 ...
Advantages: Continues the Rama spacecraft "mythology" Disadvantages: Doesn't do it well enough
Rama 2 is the follow on to the highly acclaimed "Rendezvous with Rama", a science fiction story dealing with the exploration of an alien spacecraft of gigantic proportions by a small group of human astronauts.
Clarke mentions that further books beyond ...
