Yesterday I completed Space Odyssey 2010 a continuation novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
The book is really an increadible worthy reading, I suggest every sci-fi fan reads it 🙂
The book is actually a sequel after the famous A Space Odyssey 2001
The Space Odyssey 2010 actually continues the story of Space Odyssey 2001 in a way that a multi-national Soviet – American team is on a mission with the objective to find out what went wrong with the previous Spaceship expedition to Jupiter and how does it came that the Spaceship control computer HAL misbehaved.
Eventually the story entangles a few stories where at the end David Bowman appears to have transferred himself by an uknown mysterious force from a corporal existence to a pure energetic one.
The ex-david bowman who continues his exisence in a form of energy and pure mind (similar to a Spirit) gives the International Soviet-American team a warning that they should leave Jupiter in the coming 15 days.
The crew had quite a struggle in determining if the warning by Bowman via a computer generated image is a real threat.
However the crew finally belives that what one of the members Mr. Floyed has seen on the Screen of the HAL computer is very real.
They also encounter dozens of monoliths (dark rectangles with perfect share) which do multiply themselves in a very quick manner.
The monoliths are literally eating Jupiter’s gases.
Finally Jupiter explodes and becomes a super-nova while the crew survives the explosion just on the border.
The outcome of the blast is a dozen of stars. Finally the crew succesfully starts their travel back to earth with quite a lot of stored scientific information about un observed before phenomenon.
