2010: Odyssey Two
By (Author) Arthur C. Clarke
HarperCollins Publishers
Voyager
3rd April 1985
4th December 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
304
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 19mm
160g
To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.
Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhoods End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He died in 2008 at his home in Sri Lanka.