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2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey #2)

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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 m...more

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Published February 25th 1997 by Del Rey (first published 1982)

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Apr 01, 2013 Henry Avila rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The enigma of the Spaceship Discovery, lost in Jupiter's orbit ( the setting has been changed from Saturn in the original book, to match Kubrick's film).Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001, has Dr. Heywood Floyd, again recruited on a joint U.S. and Soviet(written in 1982)expedition, to the giant planet.To find out what happened!The crew of the Soviet ship Leonov ,consists of seven Russians and three Americans,with both male and female members.Dr.Floyd,Dr. Chandra, builder of the malfunctioning com...more

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Jan 12, 2011 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As soon as I finished reading this I thought, man, I wish I didn't suck so badly at science, because being an astronomer would be SO FREAKING COOL.

But I do suck so badly at science, so I just get to read wonders like this and wish I was half as good a writer as Arthur C. Clarke, who gets to be really friggin' smart in TWO CAREERS, which is totally unfair.

There are several great things about this book. First, and one of the things that I love to read old sci-fi books for, is what Clarke in the 80...more As soon as I finished reading this I thought, man, I wish I didn't suck so badly at science, because being an astronomer would be SO FREAKING COOL.

But I do suck so badly at science, so I just get to read wonders like this and wish I was half as good a writer as Arthur C. Clarke, who gets to be really friggin' smart in TWO CAREERS, which is totally unfair.

There are several great things about this book. First, and one of the things that I love to read old sci-fi books for, is what Clarke in the 80s thought 2010 was going to look like. Some of it is actually kind of close, which is pretty cool, and some of it is either useless and we never bothered to create it or it's still beyond us in terms of technology. Second, I read the first book about seven years ago and have completely forgotten it, so the references in this were a little lost on me. But that totally doesn't matter! This isn't a completely stand-alone book, but it's not nearly as intricately dependent on the first book as it could be. Yes, you need to know the original plot, but beyond that you're good to go. Third, HOW DOES CLARKE MANAGE TO KEEP YOU ENGAGED WITHOUT ANY SORT OF REAL VILLAIN? This is how you know you're scary good; half of the book is trying to figure out what's going on with crazy computer Hal, unless it's dealing with the strange things on Europa, or wait, there are these aliens that aren't aliens SURPRISE DAVID BOWMAN I mean what? And yet, I couldn't put it down. I really, really wanted to know what was going to happen, and I may track down the next book, because Clarke is made of scientific awesome.

Also, the descriptions of the solar system? Beautiful, man. Word paintings.

I only give it four stars because the ending felt a little flat (and by ending, I mean the last 5 or so pages, and the epilogue was...I don't know what it was, but it felt a little forced). Perhaps this will be remedied by reading book three, I don't know, but it felt a tad anticlimactic, and therefore is cheated out of its fifth star. Sorry, Zagadka.(less)

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Dec 05, 2012 Jason Golomb rated it 4 of 5 stars

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"2010 - Odyssey Two" is a strong sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's renowned "2001 - A Space Odyssey". The story is well-crafted and the plot moves briskly, which makes for an enjoyable read. It's not deep on character development, and the action is infrequent, but delivered smartly and purposefully to provide the fuel for an interesting plot, expansive exposition of space, and exploration of key themes.

Like the first novel, Clarke crafts his story and writing very deliberately to create a heavy and...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Raymond Hernandez rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anybody who are into science fiction

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After reading '2010: Odyssey Two', I found that this book was a very well written story. The story talks about the journey right after the events of '2001: A Space Odyssey' on what happens to the spaceship Discovery and David Bowman. Doctor Floyd, the man who help Bowman and other scientist to find the discovery of a black monolith engraved on Earth's moon, was granted to help out the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union was still around during the publication of this book) to bring back Discovery to...more

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May 13, 2013 Eric rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the first work of fiction that I've read in a while. I had just recently rewatched the 2001 movie and two recent books for me were Arthur C. Clarke's friend Richard Hoagland's "Monuments of Mars" and "The Big Bang Never Happened".

I'll admit to never having read 2001. Perhaps there is more insight to goings on than the movie provides. 2010 goes a long way towards filling in the blanks of the enigmatic movie and its "monument".

Mr. Clarke is a very good writer. There is no allusion to a po...more

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Jan 26, 2013 Mutlu rated it 4 of 5 stars

Discovery'nin yaşadığı trajediden sonra ilk programın koordinatörü Heywood Floyd istifa ettirilmiştir. Hawai Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmakta olan Floyd, Discovery'nin geri getirilmesi ve meçhul tektaşın incelenmeye devam etmesi için süregelen bir uzay yarışı olduğunun farkındadır. Soyvetler ve Amerika bu zorlu ödüle ulaşmak için güçlerini birleştirirler. Leonov mürettebatına katılan Floyd, en büyük başarısızlığı ve sorumluluğuyla yüzleşmek için uzun bir yol gidecektir. Ancak meçhul taş...more

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Jan 02, 2013 Madeline Knight-Dixon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Each time I venture back into the world of science fiction I’m reminded how much I love it. The sheer inventiveness of the authors, creating entire species and technologies fascinates me. As of right now (in my brief exploration) Clarke is so far one of my favorites.

He doesn’t sacrifice characterization to get the sciencey parts across. In both of his books I’ve read he creates deep feelings about the characters, positive or negative (even for the computer-HAL). In other sci-fi books I’ve read i...more

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May 06, 2011 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

This sequel to 2001 was fine, but it wasn't nearly as good as 2001. Heywood Floyd and a couple of other Americans join the Russians on a trip to rescue the stranded spaceship Discovery and learn what happened to astronaut David Bowman, who disappeared at the end of 2001. They also want to probe the mystery of the black monolith, which is hanging in space around...Jupiter?

Yes, they end up at Jupiter, even though in the book 2001, the black monolith was sitting on one of Saturn's moons. And when D...more This sequel to 2001 was fine, but it wasn't nearly as good as 2001. Heywood Floyd and a couple of other Americans join the Russians on a trip to rescue the stranded spaceship Discovery and learn what happened to astronaut David Bowman, who disappeared at the end of 2001. They also want to probe the mystery of the black monolith, which is hanging in space around...Jupiter?

Yes, they end up at Jupiter, even though in the book 2001, the black monolith was sitting on one of Saturn's moons. And when David Bowman disappeared, the Discovery was orbiting Saturn. And Bowman's fellow astronaut, Frank Poole, died in a much different way than was related in 2010. And several of the other significant events were changed somehow between the two books. I can only assume Arthur C. Clarke decided to follow the movie adaptation of his book when he wrote the sequel, instead of following the plot of the original book. Silly man--didn't he know the book was WAY better than the movie? It's kind of jarring to read one book right after the other and have them not line up...kind of like reading Lost World after reading Jurassic Park and having characters somehow come back to life.

And the believability factor in this book wasn't quite as good. Heywood Floyd's presence on the ship is rather inexplicable--he's basically a politician, not an astronaut and barely a scientist, he can't help with anything, and he spends most of his time staying out of everyone's way. His only job is to send messages back to Earth. The guy was likeable enough, but he didn't DO anything. And after two months around the Russians, every American on the ship can speak perfect Russian (without actually studying it) and sometimes have long conversations amongst THEMSELVES in Russian instead of English.

And the plot...I dunno. This one just didn't grab me. I like my science fiction to have some science, but 2010 didn't have much. It was nice that HAL, the psychotic computer from the first book, got to redeem himself in this one.(less)

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Apr 08, 2011 Andreas rated it 3 of 5 stars

This series started as a one-off book released in conjunction with the Stanley Kubrick movie of the same name. The series consists of:

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* 2010: Odyssey Two. (Also made into a film)
* 2061 Odyssey Three
* 3001: The Final Odyssey

The first and second books are enthralling. 2061 is more of the same, and thus decent but somewhat pointless as part of the arc. 3001 is an attempt at closing up all the loose threads, and does so in a satisfying way.

For a long time, these books frus...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Noah Pelzer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

2010: Odyssey Two is an amazing book by Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's book 2001: a Space Odyssey. As the book begins, people are still trying to understand the fateful events from nine years earlier, during the first book, when the computer aboard the spaceship discovery went mad and killed all but one of the crew while in orbit around Jupiter. The only survivor, David Bowman, soon disappeared into a giant monolith that was the focus of the mission. As several countrie...more

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Feb 15, 2010 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I grew up watching the Peter Hymans movie adaptation of this novel. I later found a copy of the book in my high school library and read it while I was a teenager. It enjoyed it, knew I would read it again, but it has taken me about fifteen years. Amanda found a used copy at the library a few years ago, and I decided that after 2001 A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama, a little more Arthur C. Clarke wouldn’t hurt.

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Apr 25, 2012 Sue Donym rated it 4 of 5 stars

A solid sequel to a solid novel, this book holds up its end of the bargain in continuing to address the origins of the monoliths and how they are changing the universe. David Bowman acts as our guide through the strange goings-on, and this works quite well.

While the first novel focused essentially on HAL, we really get more into the depths of the book's universe with this one. Those who liked the unexamined mystery of the first one, with its man vs. robot thriller aspects, may be a little disapp...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Chad Peterman rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a book I read almost every year. In fact, with the exception of the novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I read the entire series once a year.

Arthur C. Clarke returns to the world he and director Stanley Kubrick created when they embarked on a quest to make, what Kubrick called, the "proverbially good science fiction movie." But after that movie ended, people were left with a lot of questions.

Why did HAL go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs? What the hell is the Monolith, and what did it do to our early...more This is a book I read almost every year. In fact, with the exception of the novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I read the entire series once a year.

Arthur C. Clarke returns to the world he and director Stanley Kubrick created when they embarked on a quest to make, what Kubrick called, the "proverbially good science fiction movie." But after that movie ended, people were left with a lot of questions.

Why did HAL go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs? What the hell is the Monolith, and what did it do to our early hominid ancestors? And most importantly, what happened to astronaut Dave Bowman? While those questions aren't answered in full, this revisit of the incident aboard the USSS Discovery conjures up more question, while giving some answers.

It is now the year 2010, and what happened aboard the Discovery at Jupiter is still a mystery. There were consequences on Earth, however. Dr. Heywood Floyd, who had been in charge of the space agency, had been forced out after the crew of Discovery was lost. Now he would be drawn back in, as he would venture out to the king of the planets aboard a Russian vessel called the Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

Keep in mind this was written at the end of the 1970's; long before the Soviet Union fell, so this kind of cooperation between the United States and the USSR really could have been seen as science fiction!

The Leonov reaches Jupiter, but only after a Chinese vessel called Tsien got there first (the ship was built in orbit, under the guise of a space station, and it flew like a bat out of hell to reach the Jovian system first). Tsien, and what would later happen to it and its crew, would add a new dimension to the mission of the Leonov.

Clarke was a scientist at heart. He was the one who first came up with the idea for communications satellites in Earth orbit, so a great deal of the modern world is thanks to him. And his knowledge of science also lets him write technical details in such a way that it won't alienate the lay reader. This was one of his greatest literary strengths.

Of the four novels in the series, this is my favorite. That's probably why I read this book every year.(less)

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Jan 10, 2010 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although I have not read the first book, nor seen the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, I thoroughly enjoyed 2010: Odyssey Two. This book, at least in my experience, can be read as a stand alone volume. One might glean more from its pages having read the previous book, but I never felt lost or confused by not having read the first book.
The science fiction book club to which I belong chose this as our January selection--appropriate given the new year. 2010 is, of course, science fiction. Although it...more

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May 03, 2013 Alexander Case rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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With 2010, Arthur C. Clarke's ability to write interesting, believable, and likable characters has improved dramatically, particularly compared to the cardboard cutouts from Rendezvous with Rama, and the similarly bland characters (with the exception of HAL) from 2001. The book also does a great job of answering the remaining questions from the novelization of 2001.

As far as the book to the movie goes, it's something of a 50/50 split. The book is better at providing the answers then the movie is...more

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Jun 13, 2011 Sudipta rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who likes science fiction, Anyone who liked 2001 : A Space Odyssey

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Like always, Sir Arthur Clarke uncannily weaves together accurate scientific knowledge, impeccable writing and great ideas to produce an enthralling story.

Regardless, its not as glorious as its predecessor, 2001: A Space Odyssey. But it is glorious - more than most other science fictions. In hindsight, it seems inevitable - 2001 was a masterpiece; arguably the best work of the best science fiction writer and reaching that height is quite a daunting task.

There are many discontinuities between the...more

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Feb 13, 2009 Raymond Hernandez rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This book is about the United States and the Soviet Union (at the time of the book, the Soviet Union was still around) working together to revived the abonanded spaceship, Discovery. However, the United States and the Soviet Union do not only have to revived the Discovery, but also find out of the mysterious black monolith (a.ka. "Big Brother") that orbits Jupiter.
This book was a very great and magnificent book, but wasn't amazing like the first book in the saga, '2001: A Space Odyssey'. It h...more

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Dec 02, 2010 Sally rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Jan 18, 2012 Navi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: just-awesome, sci-fi, classics

...Is it possible to like a sequel more than the first book? Cause I totally do.

I can't really describe why though. Perhaps its the fact that more interesting things happen in this book. Or that we actually stick with a set of characters the entire time instead of jumping around different connected events. And I quite liked the characters, too. They felt less flat than the last one.

But MAN, Hal and Dave steal this show. Like, really steal it. Both of them don't appear for long but they manage to...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Nadia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As someone who hasn't watched the movie, I honestly struggled with the beginning of the book, since 2010 does reference the film quite a bit. There are therefore discrepancies between 2010 and 2001, but they didn't really detract me from the well-written plot of this book. I thoroughly enjoyed the way the writer explored the dynamics of the Leonov crew, as well as the overall pace of the novel. Clarke allows for readers to slowly take in the concepts of the mission without compromising on plot d...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Sara rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people that want to be disappointed.

It was a serious disappoint after reading the first book, which I enjoyed a lot and couldn't wait for the next. It was boring and long, the only good parts being description and some Dave Bowman and Monolith intervention. I am refraining from reading the next two, in fear of how bad they may be.
The biggest problem I have is that this book literally answered all the questions you got from the first and from the movie. I can ever recall at one point how the book answered the HAL is actually telli...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Sudhamshu Hebbar rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second book by Arthur Clarke that I read. It's also the second book in the Odyssey series. Honestly, I didn't ask obvious questions. The who, why, where of the 'aliens' mentioned in the first part, the fate of the spaceship Discovery, fate of David Bowman needed to be asked. They are answered in this book.
While Clarke continues to fascinate with the intricate details that space travel brings forth, he leaves you in awe with his descriptions of Jupiter & its moons. I was taken aback a bit...more

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Aug 14, 2012 Jay Michaels rated it 4 of 5 stars

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My 15 year daughter pointed out that the famous exchange between HAL and Dave Bowman was nowhere to be found in the novel version of 2001. Sure enough, she was right.

However, Arthur C. Clarke notes in his Foreword of 2010: Odyssey Two that he attempted to align *this* book as much as he could with Stanley Kubrick's movie version of 2001. The HAL/Bowman exchange shows up in the pages of 2010, along with placing the huge monolith (TMA-2) in orbit around Jupiter, instead of Saturn.

The only (appar...more

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Apr 25, 2013 Nicholas rated it 3 of 5 stars

2010, surprisingly enough spends the bulk of its pages devoted to reliving and retconning the events of 2001 due to content conflicts with the film version. Fairly enough, Clarke opts to treat the film version of events as canon and attempts to broaden the story from the personal one told in 2001 of Dave Bowman's struggle for survival against Hal in a sort of one-on-one intellectual death match between man and machine and expand on the repercussions of Dave's transformation for all of humanity....more 2010, surprisingly enough spends the bulk of its pages devoted to reliving and retconning the events of 2001 due to content conflicts with the film version. Fairly enough, Clarke opts to treat the film version of events as canon and attempts to broaden the story from the personal one told in 2001 of Dave Bowman's struggle for survival against Hal in a sort of one-on-one intellectual death match between man and machine and expand on the repercussions of Dave's transformation for all of humanity. Following in Bowman's footsteps is the man who sent him to Jupiter in the first place - Heywood Floyd, who comes out of semi-retirement and a second marriage to uncover just what happened to the crew of Discovery. In an almost prescient move, Clarke has the American team of scientists hitchhiking on a Russian vessel.

This novel has all the suspense of its predecessor. The ever-present danger of near absolute zero vacuum lurking mere centimeters away on the other side of a thin shell, the claustrophobia of ships sensitive to weight requirements and the scarily precise calculations necessary to keep you alive (and still orbiting the sun instead of on a one-way trip into interstellar space) create a heavy atmosphere that propels the narrative forward. In addition, the crew of the Leonov finds soon after their departure that they have some competition in the race to Discovery: a Chinese crew who've disguised their ship as an orbiting space station for years has a head start and ownership of its important records and priceless knowledge looks to be slipping through the crews' fingers with each passing moment.

What ultimately slows down the story is the unnecessary padding with recap of events from the previous book. Not just recap - I should choose my words with greater care - the wholesale self-plagiarism of entire chapters at a time that are annoyingly distracting to the driving central narrative. The entire trip out to discovery is used as a narrative device to catch readers up on events from the previous book and we get small glimpses and character studies of the new crew of Leonov. The novel feels like it doesn't even really begin until the last third to quarter of the book's pages. Still, that last leg of the book drives pretty hard and there are a lot of really intense moments that will have you on edge and there are a lot of mysteries that are opened and closed by the expanding narrative. The payoff makes it worth the drudgery. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for 2061 and 3001.(less)

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May 08, 2012 Karthik rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Considering how disinterested he was in creating a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Clarke has done a remarkable job satisfying the expectations of the readers of the first novel. The books gets off to a slightly slow start, though it introduces the characters well and succinctly impresses upon the reader the events of the first book. The closing chapters, culminating in the revelations regarding the "Big Brother" monolith, though make the book worthy of the Space Odyssey series and its n...more

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Apr 11, 2009 Pablo rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Apr 21, 2013 Tabatha rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I'm enrolled in Astronomy at my community college, which shall remain nameless. My teacher constantly referenced this book throughout the semester, but I didn't actually land myself a copy until maybe 3 weeks ago? Something like that. Well he shall be happy to know I have completed the read, and now he can be a little less disappointed in his class for not being "readers." I'm definitely a reader, I just find myself with the lack of time to read due to my class focus. Anyhow on with the review!

A...more I'm enrolled in Astronomy at my community college, which shall remain nameless. My teacher constantly referenced this book throughout the semester, but I didn't actually land myself a copy until maybe 3 weeks ago? Something like that. Well he shall be happy to know I have completed the read, and now he can be a little less disappointed in his class for not being "readers." I'm definitely a reader, I just find myself with the lack of time to read due to my class focus. Anyhow on with the review!

After learning as much as I did this semester in my Astronomy class, I found myself never at a loss to understanding what was going on in this world that Arthur has written. This world he has written is quite accurate, though of course with elements of fiction, for instance, Zagadka. To understand this better you'll have to read the book. Hopefully you have some idea about Astronomy that might help you comprehend how accurate he's truly written this novel.

Though I didn't connect to any of his characters personally, I connected with the concept he laid out. I was surprised that HAL was less predictable in this novel. I find it amazing when writers can convince me I know something about a character or idea, then they totally change my mind by blowing me away with things that I could never have foretold.

At times I found myself lacking in intrigue. That's not to say this novel wasn't written well, it could just have been a bad time for me to read certain parts of it. My mind is quite scattered being a college student and all.

Sometimes I found myself laughing, though most of this novel seems to be quite serious. Perhaps it's the context of which it's read. Perhaps on sillier days it was funnier, or perhaps he had meant it to have humor to branch away from the seriousness at times. Whatever the reason, humor is something I was glad this book had, in my experience of it.

All in all, I actually preferred this book to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was written well, and I applaud him for his ability to be accurate. Yes of course I know he has passed away already, and for that I am saddened. May he rest in peace. He was a wonderful writer.(less)

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Jul 03, 2010 Bryan rated it 3 of 5 stars

As good story, better characters: In the sequel to 2001: A space odyssey, we once again meet Heywood Floyd. However, all the other astronauts are new characters, and one quickly notices how original and colourful they are /while still remaining fully realistic).
There's the commander, Tanya Orlova. Dr Chandra, who constructed HAL 9000 and has stronger feelings for it than for people, Walter Curnow, an anthropomorphic personification of the word "jolly", and many others.
And it is their task to g...more

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Mar 13, 2013 Holmes rated it 5 of 5 stars

Clarke's imagination, sense and attention to details make 2010 a worthy sequel to 2001. If you're willing to overlook the inconsistencies between the two books (Clarke claims that 2010 is not a direct sequel), then you'll find 2010 a very satisfying read.

The novel is full of wonderful ideas such as putting Americans and Russians together on a collaborative effort to "rescue" a spaceship, discovering life on Europa, and turning Jupiter into a mini-star. But what impresses me most is Clarke's tak...more

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Jan 20, 2010 Richard rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: SciFi completists; HardSF fans.

Recommended to Richard by: HardSF Group

Shelves: bookclub, scifi, scifi-hardscience, classic, scifi-alien-first-contact, series

Back in 1982 when 2010: Odyssey Two was published I was in college, and my roommate was an obsessive reader of science fiction and fantasy. I probably read less than one-third of his throughput, but undoubtedly there are two hundred or so books that I don't recall, or that I remember only dimly when I am reminded of the titles or plot outlines.

Shortly after starting, I realized that this was one of them. Even though I had long since lost any grasp of the details, I knew could recall major events...more

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