Odyssee Omnibus 1

Space Odyssey #1-2

by Arthur C. Clarke, J.B. de Mare (Translator), Jean Schalekamp (Translator)

Bevat de boeken:
- 2001 Een ruimte-Odyssee
- 2010 Odyssee 2

2001: EEN RUIMTE-ODYSSEE is de roman die ten grondslag ligt aan Stanley Kubricks bekroonde film '2001 - A Space Odyssey'. Het boek heeft sinds verschijning in de jaren zestig zijn plaats bovenaan de ranglijst van sf-klassiekers niet meer afgestaan.
Een buitenaards object zendt vanaf de maan signalen uit naar Jupiter. Ruimteschip Discovery, uitgerust met de zeer geavanceerde boordcomputer Hal, gaat op onderzoek uit. Maar halverwege de reis draait Hal door. Hij eist het commando van het schip op en ruimt de bemanning uit de weg. Gezagvoerder David Bowman blijft moederziel alleen over om te redden wat er nog te redden valt...

In 2010: ODYSSEE 2 onderzoekt een Russisch-Amerikaanse expeditie uit wat er precies met de Discovery en de bemanning is gebeurd. Waarom is Hal gek geworden? Waar is David Bowman gebleven? Wat is de functie van die geheimzinnige monolieten? Met op de achtergrond de dreigende vernietiging van de Aarde moeten de bemanningsleden samenwerken om raadsels op te lossen die de kosmos omvatten.
Twee onvergetelijke meesterwerken van Arthur C. Clarke nu voor het eerst samen in één band!

Genres: Science Fiction

511 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Stories, works of noted British writer, scientist, and underwater explorer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, include 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

This most important and influential figure in 20th century fiction spent the first half of his life in England and served in World War II as a radar operator before migrating to Ceylon in 1956. He co-created his best known novel and movie with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.

Clarke, a graduate of King's College, London, obtained first class honours in physics and mathematics. He served as past chairman of the interplanetary society and as a member of the academy of astronautics, the royal astronomical society, and many other organizations.

He authored more than fifty books and won his numerous awards: the Kalinga prize of 1961, the American association for the advancement Westinghouse prize, the Bradford Washburn award, and the John W. Campbell award for his novel Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke also won the nebula award of the fiction of America in 1972, 1974 and 1979, the Hugo award of the world fiction convention in 1974 and 1980. In 1986, he stood as grand master of the fiction of America. The queen knighted him as the commander of the British Empire in 1989.

Reviews

[Massimiliano · Rating 5 out of 5]

I surely understand now why these works from Clarke have been placed in the highest ranks of sci-fi novels. I had watched the movie before, and that movie was somewhat vague and bizarre, nonetheless impressive. Odyssey 2001, the book, gives a good explanation for most things that happened in the movie (movie and book arose simultaneously), so the book remains interesting, even if you already watched the movie.

There are however differences between the first book and the film, for example: it's all about Saturn and its moons in the book while all the movie talks about is Jupiter and its moons. This creates a nasty situation when you look at the second book (Odyssey 2010). Here Clarke 'ignores' what he had written in his previous book and goes on where the film stopped: Jupiter. The main reason seems to be because of the fruitful potentials Jupiter and its moons (mainly Europa) has, which all get a very nice spot in this second book. This (the differences) irritated me for a while and spoiled it somehow, however, I got over it and read on and it didn't disappointed me, the second book reveals some of the mysteries that were spoken of in the first book and with it, it has great ideas about origin of life and the future of mankind and the universe itself.

Also, the very own fact that the whole story never really reaches beyond our solar system please me greatly. Clarke expresses here by a great modestly about our future perspective. Most other sci-fi novels I've read where about mankind spread around the whole galaxy (or about an alien invasion an earth getting kicked his ass). Clarke follows a balanced way between this, and therefore a realistic way: space exploration and colonization will be a long, slow, hard process and there will be many things that will go wrong.