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ISBN-10: 0-679-45952-9
ISBN-13: 9780679459521
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Year: March 11, 1997
Size: 10.67 x 17.78 x 3.05cm
Weight: 431gr
Binding: Audio Cassette
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Arthur C. Clarke
Charnwood (Large Print); 1998
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4 cassettes / 4 hours Read by John Glover
»A fascinating picture of our future: cities atop needlelike towers that extend into space, the colonization of Venus, the pacification of humanity, and the abolition of religion.« --Newsweek
It is the world first introduced in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And now the odyssey enters its perilous ultimate stage. In 3001, the human race, incredibly, has survived, fearful of the trio of monoliths that dominate the solar system. Then a single hope flickers. The body of Frank Poole, believed dead for a thousand years, is recovered from the frozen reaches of the galaxy. Restored to conscious life, Poole readies himself to resume the voyage that HAL abruptly terminated a millenium ago. He knows he can't proceed without Dave Bowman. But first he must fathom the terrifying truth of what Bowman--and HAL--have become inside the monolith …
3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY
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After visionning the movies 2000 and 2010 again after few years, I did have a teast to see more from Artur C. Clarke. Well I got more for what I was bargening for. I wish Spilberg will pick-up and bring that vision to the level it deserve. Get-it, see-it.
A weak ending to a great series. The sense of wonder was gone. Very little suspense and story. This is more Clarke's view of the future than it is a story about the future. Potentially interesting as an examination of Clarke's views on politics, but that's about it.
Not much to say that hasn't already been said. 2001: A Space Odyssey (the film) should have been the beginning and final chapter in this 'saga'. The movie was a classic enigma; the 'Mona Lisa' of cinema. Each viewer left with his own interpretation of "what the hell was all that about'? That was the fun, the mystery, the challenge of what the Odyssey presented to the individual viewer. To have it dragged out, ad infinitum, into a Star Wars wannabe, was just sad! 2001 Is still one of my all time favorite films. I was 17 when I saw it in CINERAMA in Montreal. I'm 60 now, and have watched the movie maybe 50 times. It still leaves me with the same chills and awe that it did the first time I saw it. Too bad it got dragged the the comercialism knot-hole! Kubrick must be rolling in his grave.
Whilst 2001 has a certain mythical grandeur, and left the reader with a sense of awe and wonder, and is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century, Clarke's conclusion of the story one thousand years later is highly unimaginative and much more like 'standard' science fiction. To those readers enthralled by 2001, and to some part, 2010, I strongly advise that you do not read 2061, and certainly not 3001, lest the wonderous illusion of the original story be shattered in an instant.
»Just as it says from the back of the book ,the moment i started reading it i could not put it down. Especially since i am a long time sci-fi affacionado .Started to follow this story at the cinema watching the movie 2010 when i was a kid! Immerse yourself like i did into this book and start coming up with your own images of technology and space adventure coming from this journey .Rediscover again the continuation of what happened to Frank Poole,what is he now discovering many years later and the ongoing mystery that surrounds the Monolith!«
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