2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur Clarke

2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur Clarke

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2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur Clarke

A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001.
*Carl Sagan


Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft *to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong . . . and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.


Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.


Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman *the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith *streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . .


Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play.
*Time


2010 is easily Clarkes' best book in over a decade.
*The San Diego Tribune

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) wrote a hundred books and more than a thousand short stories and essays covering science fiction and science fact in a career spanning more than six decades. Among his bestselling novels are Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama.

In 1945, he proposed global broadcasting via communication satellites in geostationary orbit. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another was expanded into 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he cowrote with Stanley Kubrick.

Born in Somerset, England, Clarke was educated at King's College, London. He worked in the British civil service and the Royal Air Force before turning full-time author in 1950. The recipient of dozens of awards, fellowships, and honorary doctorates, Clarke had both an asteroid and dinosaur species named after him. Queen Elizabeth II gave him a knighthood in 1998.

Clarke lived in Sri Lanka since 1956, engaged in diving, astronomical observations, and underwater tourism.

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ISBN 13 9780345303059
ISBN 10 0345303059
Title 2010: Odyssey Two
Author Arthur Clarke
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Del Rey
Year published 1982-10-01
Number of pages 291
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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