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Title: Clarke has only one ability...
Review: ...to ruin a good book. I'll take two examples: "2001" and "Rendezvous with Rama" - two great books destroyed with mediocre sequels.I won't comment much about 3001, because everything is said by those 200 reviewers. I just want to say that not seeing Independace Day is not really an excuse for Clarke. Take a look at "Invasion","The Puppet Master","War of the worlds", and many other alien invasion movies, and you'll see that almost every time the aliens are destroyed by a virus(biological or computer, it doesn't matter, it's still a virus). Everyone who has read the previous books would expext the similar kind of enigmatic conclusion, where not everything is revealed, and the reader could be left wondering about some higher intellegence out there, and we could get some idea from the book. Here everything is revealed in the most terrible way the author could have thought of, so he ruined everything that he built in the previous books, even in 2061...
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