2061: Odyssey Three

by CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

• ISBN13: 9780345358790
• ISBN10: 0345358791
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-04-13
• Publisher: Del Rey

Summary

Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. From the Paperback edition.

Author Biography

Sir Arthur C. Clarke was born at Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1917 and is a graduate of Kings College, London, where he obtained First Class Honors in Physics and Mathematics. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations. During World War II, as an RAF officer, he was in charge of the first radar talk-down equipment during its experimental trials. His only non-science-fiction novel, Glide Path, is based on this work. Author of over sixty books, some twenty million-plus copies of which have been printed in over thirty languages, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science-writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Awards-all three of which were won by his novel Rendezvous with Rama. In 1968 he shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and his thirteen-part TV series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World has now been screened in many countries. He joined Walter Cronkite during CBS's coverage of the Apollo missions. His invention of the communications satellite in 1945 has brought him numerous honors, such as the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship, a gold medal of the Franklin Institute, the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, the Lindbergh Award, and a Fellowship of King's College, London. The President of Sri Lanka nominated him Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, near Colombo. Sir Arthur was presented the Award of Knight Bachelor on May 26, 2000 at a ceremony in Sri Lanka, where he has lived since 1956.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	vii
I THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
The Frozen Years	3	(5)
First Sight	8	(3)
Reentry	11	(7)
Tycoon	18	(3)
Out of the Ice	21	(9)
The Greening of Ganymede	30	(4)
Transit	34	(7)
Starfleet	41	(4)
Mount Zeus	45	(3)
Ship of Fools	48	(4)
The Lie	52	(5)
Oom Paul	57	(2)
``No One Told Us to Bring Swimsuits...''	59	(3)
Search	62	(5)
II THE VALLEY OF BLACK SNOW
Rendezvous	67	(4)
Touchdown	71	(4)
The Valley of Black Snow	75	(5)
Old Faithful	80	(4)
At the End of the Tunnel	84	(8)
Recall	92	(5)
III EUROPAN ROULETTE
The Politics of Exile	97	(3)
Hazardous Cargo	100	(5)
Inferno	105	(3)
Shaka the Great	108	(2)
The Shrouded World	110	(3)
Night Watch	113	(4)
Rosie	117	(5)
Dialog	122	(4)
Descent	126	(5)
Galaxy Down	131	(3)
The Sea of Galilee	134	(7)
IV AT THE WATER HOLE
Diversion	141	(7)
Pit Stop	148	(5)
Car Wash	153	(6)
Adrift	159	(6)
The Alien Shore	165	(6)
V THROUGH THE ASTEROIDS
Star	171	(4)
Icebergs of Space	175	(5)
The Captain's Table	180	(4)
Monsters from Earth	184	(2)
Memoirs of a Centenarian	186	(3)
Minilith	189	(6)
VI HAVEN
Salvage	195	(3)
Endurance	198	(2)
Mission	200	(3)
Shuttle	203	(3)
Shards	206	(5)
Lucy	211	(6)
VII THE GREAT WALL
Shrine	217	(6)
Open City	223	(4)
Phantom	227	(3)
On the Couch	230	(4)
Pressure Cooker	234	(5)
Reunion	239	(2)
Magma	241	(3)
Perturbation Theory	244	(3)
Interlude on Ganymede	247	(8)
VIII THE KINGDOM OF SULFUR
Fire and Ice	255	(4)
Trinity	259	(8)
IX 3001
Midnight in the Plaza	267	(2)
Acknowledgments	269	(2)
Addendum	271