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Title: Great author in decline is sad to see...
Review: While I read all the Sci-Fi giants as a teenager, Clarke was myfavorite. His early collections were some of the best Sci-Fi everdone. So it was a great disappointment reading 3001, to see how far he has fallen. 3001 seemed to be vehicle for Clarke to trot all of his "inventions", such as the space elevator/orbital ring, exploration of the solar system, and various colonies throughout the solar system. I did like the bringing back of Frank Poole, but having the artifact of a race a million years ahead of laid low by a computer virus? Preposterous! The book was at best anticlimatic, almost none of the big questions were answered. Sad.
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