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1997FictionThirty-first century in fictionOuter space in fictionScience fictionHuman-alien encounters in fiction
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Captain Dimitri Chandler [M2973.04.21/93.106//Mars//Space-Acad3005]-or "Dim" to his very best friends-was understandably annoyed.
About this book
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much has changed. Then he receives a warning that the Monoliths have decided to destroy the human race.
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FictionThirty-first century in fictionOuter space in fictionScience fictionHuman-alien encounters in fictionExploration
First published 1997Setting
Outer spaceJupiter (Planet)
About the author
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…
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