“2010: Odyssey Two” was written when the USSR still existed and the Cold War with the USA was under way.
This gave Clarke the opportunity to write a sequel to the movie rather than the first novel. The novel “2001: A Space Odyssey” ended in Saturn’s system but Stanley Kubrick decided to eliminate that stage of the journey to focus on the rest of his movie’s plot. This led to the first speculations about the presence of life forms in that underground ocean. The characteristics of Europa’s frozen surface, full of breaks, represented an important indication of Jupiter’s gravity influence and of the possibility of liquid water in that moon’s subsoil.
In addition, in 1979 NASA’s Voyager Space Probes passed near Jupiter taking the first good quality photos of some of its moons, including Europa. However, the monoliths had remained mysterious together with David Bowman’s destiny, facts that were good for the movie but left several possibilities open. Clarke “2001: A Space Odyssey” was a self-concluding story and for several years he thought it wasn’t possible to give it a sequel. Chandra, the creator of HAL 9000, leave on the spaceship Leonov to Jupiter, where the Discovery is waiting for them but also the version of the monolith larger than that discovered on the Moon.įor Arthur C. Its destruction would mean losing any hope of finding out what happened to the expedition.įor the USA it’s impossible to set up a rescue mission that could arrive in time while the USSR has already been setting one up for some time.
The observations indicate that its orbit has become unstable with the prospect that it might falls to Jupiter. Nine years have passed since the Discovery spaceship’s disaster and on Earth no one yet knows what really happened.
It’s the second book of the Odyssey series in space and the sequel to “ 2001: A Space Odyssey“. Clarke was published for the first time in 1982. The novel “2010: Odyssey Two” by Arthur C.
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