num_pages: 252
description: Arthur C. Clarke has been the presiding genius of science fiction for almost fifty years. His works include the ground-breaking and profound CHILDHOOD'S END, RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA and EXPEDITION TO EARTH. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But, before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong, horribly wrong...Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
language: English
title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
titlecomplete: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
characters: Dave Bowman, HAL 9000, Frank Poole, Heywood Floyd
genres: Classics, Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 305730
places: Outer Space
series: Space Odyssey
publisher: Orbit