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Maybe the best SF book ever written.

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 ...

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Review of Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

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More of the same - almost

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 ...

seagulls-lost-horizon 24.06.2001 · Read full review
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Review of 2010 Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke

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the odyssey continues

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 ...

Belgarath_02 17.07.2000 · Read full review
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2061

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 ...

RafK2survey 26.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of 2061 Odyssey Three - Arthur C. Clarke

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Rama Returns

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 ...

TheDuke 27.03.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Rama II - Arthur C. Clarke

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