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Title: A huge disappointment
Review: What happened to Heywood Floyd and to HAL? I thought that they would reappear in this book but no..NO! Thay simply seemed to have disappeared. It was as if Mr. Clarke forgot to read his other books before writing 3001. The story actually does not follow the path of 2001 series and it appears as if he wrote the book just because a publisher asked him to. The life seems to be missing from the book. It definitely was a big disappointmnet to read the book and realise that the ideas postulated -- the hub around earth -- is borrowed form his previous novels. What happened to originbality. He has been the pioneer of his times and in fact the 2061 ends with the line -- Ans the monolith awaoke. At this time the monolith is supposed to be in the courtyard of the UN building ON EARTH not somewhere floating above. Simply very disappointed. Reda it if you are a ACC fan . But if you want to keep the feeling of Odeyssey series....forget it..Don't even touch this book.
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