![]() ![]() Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Now all those questions and many more have been answered. What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? He won innumerable international awards for his fiction, for his science writing and for his inspirational role as one of the chief prophets of the space age. ![]() Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child? Arthur C Clarke is probably the worlds best known and bestselling science fiction writer. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: ![]() Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. ![]()
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