As one of the architects behind the Discovery mission, Floyd has long felt responsible for the lives lost on that doomed expedition. Their mission: find the Discovery, determine what went wrong with HAL 9000 and what happened to astronaut David Bowman, and find some answers about the enormous Monolith floating in space.Īboard Leonov is a familiar character from 2001 (the novel and the film): Heywood Floyd. So, after several long years of work, a new mission towards Jupiter is finally ready - a joint US/Russian endeavor aboard the Leonov (named after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov). The disastrous Discovery mission of 2001 gave mankind no answers about the mysterious Monoliths and the ancient extraterrestrial entities behind their creation. Clarke’s Odyssey series, superior in my opinion even to the original novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke! I enjoyed both of those so much that I decided to continue onwards with the rest of the series of novels (as well as the film sequel).Ģ010: Odyssey Two is one of my very favorite science fiction novels. Last week I wrote about Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as the novel by Arthur C. Additionally, important elements from two more Clarke stories, ' Encounter in the Dawn' and (to a somewhat lesser extent) ' Rescue Party', made their way into the finished project.Josh Reviews the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. These included ' Breaking Strain', 'Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.', 'Who's There?', ' Into the Comet', and ' Before Eden'. Both the novel and the film are partially based on Clarke's 1948 short story ' The Sentinel', an entry in a BBC short story competition, and ' Encounter in the Dawn', published in 1953 in the magazine Amazing Stories.Īfter deciding on Clarke's 1948 short story 'The Sentinel' as the starting point, and with the themes of man's relationship with the universe in mind, Clarke sold Kubrick five more of his stories to use as background materials for the film.

It is a part of Clarke's Space Odyssey series, the first of four novels and two films. Clarke and the 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel written by Arthur C.

2010 by Arthur C. Clarke