2001 Space Odyssey

by Arthur Clarke | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0451457994 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Christeph of Ladysmith, British Columbia Canada on 1/21/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by Christeph from Ladysmith, British Columbia Canada on Monday, January 21, 2008
I bought the complete set (2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001) in a library sale shortly after we moved to Canada...and reading them kept me sane during our whole househunting and settling in period. Now that the dust has settled I've discovered them again and may need to re-read them (in my calmer state!) before I let them go.

But they were everything I'd anticipated and more on so many levels.

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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 Discovery, 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 Discovery'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.

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