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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:This New York Timesâ??bestselling chapter in the Hugo Awardâ??winning Space Odyssey series is "intriguing and satisfying . . . the all-round best Odyssey so far" (Kirkus Reviews).
The third book in Clarke's beloved Space Odyssey continues the story of Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths and the alien intelligences behind them. Floyd is chosen as one of a handful of celebrity guests to witness the first manned touchdown on the surface of Halley's Comet on the privately-owned spaceship Universe.
But on Jupiter's moon Europa, scientists have spotted the sudden appearance of a single diamond the size of a mountainâ??a fragment of Jupiter's core. When the spaceship Galaxy is hijacked and forced to crash into Europa's ocean, the Universe is diverted from its original mission to rescue the crew.
Now Heywood Floyd must once again survive an encounter with HAL, David Bowman, and the mysterious monolith-building race with its own inscrutable agenda to shape the destiny of the hu… (lisätietoja)
themulhern: One is contemporary and non-fiction, one was written a while ago and is fiction, but they are both fundamentally speculations about the possibility of life on other worlds. Both have a lot to say about the moons of Jupiter, although Clarke takes it further. It's funny that a book about "life beyond our solar system" should discuss various moons within our solar system in such detail, but the point that the non-fiction work makes is that, until the fascinating situation of Europa was discovered, it hadn't been imagined to be possible by scientists who were arguing from their single well-known example, the Moon.… (lisätietoja)
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:This New York Timesâ??bestselling chapter in the Hugo Awardâ??winning Space Odyssey series is "intriguing and satisfying . . . the all-round best Odyssey so far" (Kirkus Reviews).
The third book in Clarke's beloved Space Odyssey continues the story of Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths and the alien intelligences behind them. Floyd is chosen as one of a handful of celebrity guests to witness the first manned touchdown on the surface of Halley's Comet on the privately-owned spaceship Universe.
But on Jupiter's moon Europa, scientists have spotted the sudden appearance of a single diamond the size of a mountainâ??a fragment of Jupiter's core. When the spaceship Galaxy is hijacked and forced to crash into Europa's ocean, the Universe is diverted from its original mission to rescue the crew.
Now Heywood Floyd must once again survive an encounter with HAL, David Bowman, and the mysterious monolith-building race with its own inscrutable agenda to shape the destiny of the hu