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2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey

Seems pretty. Will read soon.

The film version is flawed but still well-worth anyone’s time who got this deep in the thread & enjoys hard, near-future sci-fi.

My theory is that 2010: The Year We Make Contact is a lot like Blade Runner, pre- the various Ridley Scott re-cuts.

Drop the voiceover, tweak the ending to be less literal / sentimental, fix some of the FX matting, and you’d be left with one of the best serious SF films since 2001.

Surprised they haven't made 2061 with modern FX and budget so they can market it as a trilogy.

Must be too busy rebooting batman over and over for the 100th time I guess.

I enjoy both; 2010 is more an action piece wrapped with this period-specific visuals, coming also with burden of the real-world Cold War. While 2001 is a cinematic masterpiece that ended times of this naive pulp-scifi with its metal pointy rockets and damsel in distress tropes. The only thing I really really don't like the paint-psychodelic visual that Kubric used instead of Clarke's "Grand Central Station of the galaxy".

I really wish the remaining books would be turn into movies and so the Clarke-Baxter' A Time Odyssey series.

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