We met Dr Heywood Floyd, retired space expert, when he flew via a space station to the moon to explore the artifact in 2001. LeonovĬlarke’s protagonists always have sensible home lives. It’s nearly 100 pages longer than the original novel, and cast in 55 chapters, themselves divided into seven parts. Well, 2010: Odyssey Two, for the first half or so, is an extension of precisely those mundane, boring parts of the first book. The weakest part was the middle which described the mundane, chatty, boring bureaucrats and scientists who held interminable meetings to discuss the mysterious monolith which had been discovered on the moon, and the practical physics of orbits and apogees and escape velocities attached to the journey of spaceship Discovery. In the original book the best parts were: the vivid imagining of life among primitive man-apes, the hair-raising mental collapse of the computer HAL 9000 aboard the spaceship, and then the extraordinary vision of Bowman hurtling through the star gate and being transformed into a cosmic consciousness.
The two stars is purely because I managed to finish the book, albeit with strained eyes.This is a direct sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and nothing like as good. I have put a copy of '2001' next to it for comparison. I'm not sure if it is "Voyager Books" or "Harper Collins" - it isn't clear - but as you can see from the pictures, the font is awful and fairly inconsistent. Now, the 2/5 rating for book is regarding the publisher of this version(purchased from marketplace). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 August 2019 There is one particular page when sending a report to Earth which is just awful! The two stars is purely because I managed to finish the book, albeit with strained eyes. There is also a movie adaptation of this book called '2010: The Day We Made Contact', which I will watch after writing this review! So readers may feel confused if reading after the first book, but not viewing the movie (which I recommend viewing, if not to compliment the book then for the effects of the time). Readers and viewers will know of the few differences, with the main one being Kubrick opting to travel to Jupiter whereas A.C.C writes about Saturn.
It doesn't take place after the '2001' book, but instead is a sequel to Kubrick's '2001' movie. Summary: good sequel to movie, bad publisher/typescript.įirst of all, I should make clear that the plot of this book is a good sequel.
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