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2061

by Arthur C. Clarke

1988Science fictionExtraterrestrial beingsFictionGeneral Science fictionLong Now Manual for Civilization
3.8
Open Library
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"For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape," remarked Dr. Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final printout.

"For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape," remarked Dr. Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final printout.

About this book

A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books [2001: A Space Odyssey][1] and [2010: Odyssey two][2]. Two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths must once again confront David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Humanity is to play a part in the Evolution of the Galaxy whether it wishes to or not. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL17365W/2001 [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL17413W/2010

Themes & subjects

Science fictionExtraterrestrial beingsFictionGeneral Science fictionLong Now Manual for CivilizationSpace vehicles
First published 1988

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Setting

21st century

About the author

Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke

16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventu…

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

First published

1988

Pages

279

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

33

Languages

English, French, Italian

Publisher

Ballantine Books

ISBN

9788834740316

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