false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170735590m/70535.jpg 70535 81 When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the <I>Discovery</I>, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of <I>Discovery</I>'s components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization. Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions," it's still loaded with exciting and awe-inspiring science fiction.--Brooks Peck 208362 book 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey total:7294|5:2197|4:2895|3:1766|2:353|1:83| 7294 28652 9033 385 4 3 false false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 22 17:25:55 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 23 06:26:26 -0700 2008 2001 before. What I didn't know, until reading the foreword, is that this novel was literally written in tandem with the film, with Clarke and Kubrick feeding each other ideas. At some points, however, filming overtook writing, or vice vers...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:06:10 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:23:54 -0700 2009
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I did not think that the ending was effective. It was weird and had nothing to do with the next book. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark ended after Dave, the last survivor of the Discovery, was transformed into a mass of energy by alien tech...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 04:11:03 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 04:12:17 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:17:04 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 05:30:47 -0700 2009
This is the kind of book that, if I had read it when I was younger, would have inspired my wholehearted awe; would have made me love science fiction. Reading it now is still impressive, for though I will always be more of a fantasy fan, I can appreciat...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 17:52:35 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:02:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:05:33 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:14:36 -0700 2009 The Second World War). It is a very interesting read and one of the better sci-fi books I've read.

I didn't realize until I read this book that it was written with the express purpose o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 10:34:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 08:40:19 -0700 2009 help whatsoever! The first obelisk is a teacher that helps ape-like ancient man make the leap t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:52:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:00:30 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 15:59:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 18:00:55 -0800 2009
There were definite crests of interest in the beginning, the first being when an alien being? ship? lands on prehistoric Earth and directs the-ape men to evolve int...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 21:53:08 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 18:18:20 -0700 2009
Most Sci-Fi is just fantasy set in outer sp...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 10:33:27 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 22:08:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 05:18:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 17:57:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 19 17:51:13 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 17:53:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:58:47 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:10:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=70535