Space Odyssey 2010 by Arthur Clarke a
continuention sci-fi novel to Space Odyssey 2001
Yesterday I completed
Space Odyssey 2010
a continuation novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
The book is really an increadible worthy reading, I suggest every
sci-fi fan reads it :)
The book is actually a sequel after the famous A Space
Odyssey 2001
The Space Odyssey 2010 actually continues the story of
Space
Odyssey 2001 in a way that a multi-national Soviet - American
team is on a mission with the objective to find out what went wrong
with the previous Spaceship expedition to Jupiter and how does it
came that the Spaceship control computer HAL misbehaved.
Eventually the story entangles a few stories where at the end David
Bowman appears to have transferred himself by an uknown mysterious
force from a corporal existence to a pure energetic one.
The ex-david bowman who continues his exisence in a form of energy
and pure mind (similar to a Spirit) gives the International
Soviet-American team a warning that they should leave Jupiter in
the coming 15 days.
The crew had quite a struggle in determining if the warning by
Bowman via a computer generated image is a real threat.
However the crew finally belives that what one of the members Mr.
Floyed has seen on the Screen of the HAL computer is very
real.
They also encounter dozens of monoliths (dark rectangles with
perfect share) which do multiply themselves in a very quick
manner.
The monoliths are literally eating Jupiter's gases.
Finally Jupiter explodes and becomes a super-nova while the crew
survives the explosion just on the border.
The outcome of the blast is a dozen of stars. Finally the crew
succesfully starts their travel back to earth with quite a lot of
stored scientific information about un observed before
phenomenon.