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In three pages, this high school level book report describes the reader’s various reactions to this science fiction text. No additional sources are listed in the bibliography.
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After providing the reader with a background of what took place between the years 2010 and 2061, and introducing such characters as Dr. Heywood Floyd and his grandson Chris Floyd
II (Chris Floyd I died in the Copernicus Disaster), the text also discusses the many political and technological changes that have taken place on earth. In 2061, the still
fit 103-year-old Dr. Floyd is given the honor of joining several celebrities on the Universe in a human landing on Halleys Comet. Meanwhile, Galaxy scientists, including Dr. Rolf van
der Berg, are studying Europa to determine whether photographs depicting the Mount Zeus formation as a huge diamond are accurate. When the Galaxy becomes stranded on Europa - which
has been determined to be biologically unsuited to the Earth - the Universe is dispatched to rescue the crewmembers. The mission is successful, and Dr. Floyd is reunited with
his grandson at Ganymede. The narrative then describes the monoliths that were the emphasis of the two earlier Space Odyssey novels, which Dr. Floyd wonders are real or simply
dreams. These monoliths are intelligent life forms that can make duplicates of human beings and transfers them into immortals that live inside the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds
monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercomputer known as HAL. Previously, the monoliths transformed Jupiter into a sun known as Lucifer, which has
been melting Europa. At the conclusion of 2061: Odyssey Three in the year 3001, after a monolith is erected at the United Nations Building, Lucifer begins to fade.
Night returns, and "for the second time in four million years, the monolith awoke" (Clarke 268). This book made me wish that I could have experienced Dr. Floyds weightlessness.
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