About this title: The Leonov is beaten to Jupiter by a Chinese mission which lands on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and falls victim to its unknown terrain. The last astronaut to die on the alien surface broadcast a message - there is life on Europa.
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Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345303059ISBN:0345303059
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. xvii, 291 p.; 24 cm. Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. "A Del Rey book. " read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345303059ISBN:0345303059
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. xvii, 291 p.; 24 cm. Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. "A Del Rey book. " read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345303059ISBN:0345303059
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. xvii, 291 p.; 24 cm. Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. "A Del Rey book. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345303059ISBN:0345303059
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. xvii, 291 p.; 24 cm. Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. "A Del Rey book. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780345303066ISBN:0345303067
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with unmarked pages. The cover has moderate shelf & edge wear. The spine has four creases, but is not broken. read more
"While conceptually very well thought out, 2010 doesn't seem to burst forth with the combination of suspense and wonder that made its predecessor so entrancing. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of theoretical science to be enjoyed in this book - something which Clark supplies in reliable doses. Rather, its the narrative - which moves at a rather slow, plodding pace - that makes parts of this book unintentionally dull. I credit this misfortune to Clark's attempt to make the characters more "interesting" and human. I thought one of the elements that made the first book so intriguing was the lack of a developed background for Bowman and Poole, and the scarceness of human interaction. This void made the reader feel a cold separation from humanity out in the vast bleakness of space."
"Really enjoyed the first half, but it all gets a bit fluffy and vague. I feel 2001 was good because it left a degree of ambiguity that the reader was allowed to work with, inflating it to mystical proportions and understanding the events of the book as a step forward in human evolution... and so on.
By explaining and fleshing out the forces at work in 2010, Clarke ends up stepping on his own toes, narrowing down our horizons, making the mysticism seem a bit hokey and low-key. Less Zarathustra and more of the Ghostbusters theme. When the star-child Bowman comes into I felt it lost it a bit.
Shame, as the first half is fully absorbing. Clarke is still smart and snappy and knowledgeable, so it's not an unpleasant read, but it's not fully satisfying either."
"Good follow-on the last book. Wish they'd stuck to the first book and not the movie...but author rights trump all (as he stated in the forward). Bit Chauvinistic (just like first one), would have hoped that moving 20 years out of the 60's would change that, but it was not to be. Non-present relationships (i.e. Earth relationships) trivialize a bit too much. Good technical language and vision. Would love to see man actually make it to Jupiter some day."
"A sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey in much the same way Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a sequel to The Planet of the Apes. It repeats much of the same material as the previous book and introduces very little new material. It was nearly as enjoyable to read as the first book, and the characters and situations were much more informed than in the first book as the first was written before the moon landings and this one was written in the 1980s. Arthur C. Clarke does have a knack for describing space and he makes it come alive on many occasions, but overall the book was another attempt to recreate the previous book and its themes rather than to create something new and exciting."
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