pickAs we know, 2001 as a novel/movie was a collaboration between Clarke and Kubrick. Without being similarly handcuffed for the sequel, we get a much more exciting story. Clarke loves to write about the pioneering spirit and endeavour of the human race but he simultaneously captures the sense of wonder and how small and insignificant we are within the vastness of space and time. Clarke is the speculative Galactus of sci-fi writing. Superb book.
I find the older I get the less new stuff I listen to as I like my old comforts! Like the other Mums of my generation, this is very influenced by my kids ❤️
#partytime #maybenow
#top10ofthedecade #fictionedition RoundTwo
These are my favorite 10 books published in the 2010s. This was an easier selection, as I only had to drop 3-4 contenders. 😆
Okay, honestly, this whole book was mind-blowing 👏
"...And because in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed."
pickOh my god that was awesome! I definitely will continue this series!
So close to finishing this! Definitely taking a break from this series again afterwards though lol. I'm that weird person that takes a break between each book in a series 😂😂😂
It is really messing with my OCD how they changed the setting and what they now say happened on the ship. But I still like this series so far it's just messing with my head 😌😌
pickYes, yes, yes. If it wasn‘t obvious already, I absolutely adore this series. I love everything about it, the writing, the plot, the theories, the aliennnnnnnsssss...okay I admit, I‘m a little blind to anything wrong with this book because aliens.
Overall, I found this sequel just as enjoyable as the first!!
“And maybe no such bridge is possible and that two such alien forms of consciousness can never coexist. If this is so, then only one of them can inherit the solar system. Which it will be, not even the gods know...yet.”
Happy calendar page flip day!
What a funny coincidence it is that this month is ”Extraterrestrial Eruptions” with a large blurb on Io, because it‘s one of the major settings in 2010 which I‘m reading right now! 😁
I just love Clarke‘s descriptions of Io‘s nightmarish volcanic landscape in the book. Just imagining it gave me chills!
10 chapters in and unsurprisingly loving the adventure. Still not sure if I agree with changing the setting to Jupiter but I understand why. However, I‘m still a big fan of the overwhelming presence of the Great Eye of Iapetus and the Saturn imagery in the first book 💔
Only a few more things left to unpack after my big move. With this new place, I‘m expecting a lot more free time to be able to read! Soon!
Also, very curious about this...movie??
“I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic.”
#QuotsyJan19 | 15: #Intelligent
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pickLoving the series....2001 is still the best, but this was pretty outstanding, too. ACC was def The Godfather of SciFi.
Opening line: "Even in this metric age, it was still the thousand-foot telescope, not the three-hundred-metre one." #2010odysseytwo #sequel #arthurcclarke #sciencefiction #book #bookish #bookgnome #firstline #bookcover
pickA nice continuation of 2001, expands upon the story in a way that when you go back and analyse the first you realise the hints were there from the beginning. don't expect the story to be as good as 2001 though, as in my opinion it is a bit of a lazy write as some extracts from 2001 are copied straight into this novel.
2010: Odyssey Two | 
