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Title: A little dissapointing...
Review: 3001 would probably have been allright as a stand-alone, but it read like Clarke didn't really have anything left to say about the monoliths. All through the book, I was thinking, "OK, this is all interesting: all the future predictions and gadgets, but when do we get to the monolith?!?" I really got interested when they discovered the monolith's plans, but nothing ever came of it. They had ONE meeting about it where they figured out how to solve the issue (trying not to give anything away to anyone who hasn't read it), Frank had ONE conversation with Dave and they implemented their solution. I thought the humans were going to get into a real good conflict with the monolith, but instead all I got was that weak spectacle at the end when the monolith was defeated. So basically, interesting view of the future, but Clarke seemed to be trying too hard to fit it into the 2001 series.
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