2061: Odyssey Three
By (Author) Arthur C. Clarke
HarperCollins Publishers
Voyager
17th May 1989
4th December 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
304
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 20mm
200g
2061 is the year Halley's Comet makes its next pilgrimage to the inner Solar System and the year centenarian Heywood Floyd encounters once again the alien Monoliths. Near Jupiter, the transfigured forms of Dave Bowman and HAL the computer are Heywood's only chance of survival if they too are not now alien beings.
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.