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Title: It actually offended me.
Review: All right, the basic premise of this novel is just plain wrong. According to the speed of light, the Alien Overlords are just finding out what humanity is like and that maybe we are not that nice. Didn't Clarke read his own book. The speed of light can be gotten around. The aliens knew EXACTLY what we were like right from the start! His vision of the ring around Earth is kind of cool, and the best thing about this book.It needs to be said that Clarke's condescending comments about religion and religious people are so callow and insulting that I lost much of the respect I had for him. I now assess most of the credit for 2001 to Stanley Kubrick. Judging by this book, the aliens were wasting their time putting the monolith on Earth.
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