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Product:	2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
Date:	13/10/01 (53 review reads)
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I have mixed feelings about this book. Clarke is my favorite science fiction writer and I enjoyed spending more time in the 2001 universe but, in a very real way, there should never have been a sequel to 2001. 2001 ends with the next evolutionary leap for mankind. This book - and all the others that follow - are merely an anti-climax and they belittle the importance of the first book. I don't think that Clarke himself understood the importance of the first story. All the successive books make you think, "Well, what was the point." All the Starchild can think of doing in this story is to start creation all over again on Europa. Why? What's the point? What about Earth? Clarke sidestepped all the important questions from the first novel for the rest of the series. I mean really, who cares about character developement? Also, an annoying trait that he has is that each novel disregards what happened in each of the previous novels: in the first book, Bowman goes to Saturn, in the second, we pretend that it was Jupiter so it can be more like the movie. In the end, this book turns out to be a pleasant but forgettable read. I do not view the events described as what "really" happened after 2001. I think the Starchild could have come up with a few better ideas.

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