content: I grew up on Clarke. His novels and short stories fuelled my avid interest in science, evolution, and academic pursuits. It used to be that I could not wait to read the latest Clarke edition. But the last good books Mr. Clarke has written were 2010 and Fountains of Paradise.All subsequent books by Mr. Clarke, including 3001 have lacked the ingenuity and sense of wonder present in his earlier work (i.e. Childhoods End, Rendezvous with Rama, Expedition to Earth).I thought that 2061: Odyssey Three was low point of Clarke's writing, but 3001 is nothing more than a "cut and paste" job from all the intruiging ideas explored by Mr. Clarke in previous books. The notes at the end of 3001 are more interesting that the actual story, and most of those notes appeared in the much earlier (and brilliant) Fountains of Paradise.My advice to those that loved 2001 and haited 2061, give this book a miss