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Title: An anticlimactic end to a great series
Review: Arthur C Clarke has produced some awesome works ofSF. Rendezvous with Rama, 2001 and Childhood's Endrank, in my opinion, with the best SF ever produced. This book is a major disappointment. There are a myriad of inconsistencies with the previous books of the series and the work reads more like a short story than a novel. Most of the key elements of the previous book have been discarded and some of the more trivial ones developed. As an optimistic speculation as to the state of the world in 3001 the book works well. As a novel it is rather poor. The Clarke fan would consider it substandard when compared to his other works while the casual reader would just find it dull. After the heights of 2001 the Odyssey series has come to a anticlimactic and perhaps even unimaginative end.
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