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Title: Clarke's imagination is pure science and it shows in 3001
Review: In 3001 the missing element is extra-scientific imagination in the form of real drama. Like the Rama series, there is wealth of plausible scientific innovation from a futurist perspective in the 2001 series, but little in the way of real imagination of the human kind. Nonetheless, I read Clarke with this caveat in mind and he never disappoints me. As expected, Clarke's world of 3001 is the innovative environment that we have come to expect from a futurist thinker, but to describe his world, he inserts some unrelated incidents that simply serve as a vehicle to describe innovation. I did enjoy the innovations of the third millenium and look forward to Clarke's futurist research prospectus.
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