Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780345351739ISBN:0345351738
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 279 p. Audience: General/trade. In good shape for a library book. The usual suspects: Card holder removed from the back, dust jacket protected by clear plastic cover, "discard" stamped on the edge at the bottom of book, small water stain at bottom of first few pages. All pages still tightly held to spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780345351739ISBN:0345351738
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has very minor shelf wear, binding is tight and square, pages are clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 279 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345358790ISBN:0345358791
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The cover is aging with moderate shelf & edge wear. The spine has a few shallow creases. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345358790ISBN:0345358791
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Not as good as the first two, but still an interesting read.
Deals more with characters than science.
I like how the end was set up and made good use of forshadowing to the following book. Not as much a sense of mystery in this book as the last two, cause Clarke lays it all on the table.
There was a sense of wonder with the last two, where this one is more a sense of discovery.
Still a great read for any Odyssey fan, but I wouldn't start with this book."
"This is my least favorite of Arthur C. Clarke's odysseys. But you'll notice I still gave it four stars. In the weeks leading up to Clarke's passing, he said he was sleeping most of every day. And his sleep was filled with dreams of visiting all the real-life worlds he'd written about. Who knows how many odysseys those dreams could have provided readers? Regardless, I'm grateful for the four he gave me.
This novel lets the reader go up close with Halley's Comet. But I got impatient for the storyline to head back to the mystery of the Monoliths. Sometimes the parts of the story a reader is most interested in are not the parts of the story the author was most interested in. That's okay. Like I say, I'll take a trip out into the Universe with Arthur C. Clarke any day."
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