2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Taste attributes: science fictionrobots/ai/spaceadventureslowfresh & originalunsavouryimaginaryglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, original science-fiction novel: wide-ranging and glossy. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
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4.2 / 5
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About This Book
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on...
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- Arthur C. Clarke
- Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 237
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