Floyd has remarried a much younger woman, has a two-year-old son, and lives in an idyllic house by the Indian Ocean which appears to have a kind of dock into which swim tame dolphins to ‘talk’ to them.įloyd is informed that an expedition is being prepared to go rendezvous with the Discovery, the spaceship HAL 900 went mental on, and from which David Bowman undertook his last journey through the alien star gate. 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. This is a direct sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and nothing like as good.
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