3001: The Final Odyssey

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So. It's still a decent read, but far from a 5-star effort. Sir Arthur's windup of his Space Odyssey series is still fun, decent SF, and worth reading. Reread rating: 3.5 stars, rounded up.

Human evolution: The show imagines a world in which humans have evolved to live in a variety of environments, and explores the challenges and complexities of this new form of humanity. Su pequeño universo es muy joven, y su Dios aún es un niño. Pero es demasiado pronto para juzgarlos. Cuando regresemos en los Últimos Días, ya pensaremos en lo que vale la pena salvar". Curiously, his thesis is that mankind isn’t responsible for our aggressive tendencies; we were programmed that way by interfering aliens. Millions of years ago.

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Hearing the conclusion to the 2001 series....sort of. It definitely leaves the door wide open for the eventual confrontation with the makers of the monoliths in the year 4001 give or take a century or two. That could potentially be much more interesting than the events in 3001. Secondly, I cannot imagine that "human" society will be even remotely comprehensible to a 20th century human being by 3001. A social/technological/biological "singularity" may well have taken place. The show takes place in the year 3001, a thousand years after the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The world has changed dramatically, with advancements in technology that allow humans to explore the galaxy and interact with other intelligent life forms. Frank Poole, a character from the previous novels, is revived from cryogenic suspension after his death in the first book. He finds himself in a world that is beyond his imagination, with flying cities and intelligent machines that run the world. The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” ( The New York Times ). The only bad thing i found was the mid-book exit of a character named 'Dim.' He just vanishes and his fate is only mentioned in passing.

Beware of spoilers for the previous books below. I’m assuming anyone who reads this review will likely have read the three preceding novels. Starfish Aliens: The "Europs", whose evolution has been accelerated by the Monoliths much as ancient man-apes were accelerated on the path to humans. They're described as looking like mobile thorn-bushes, with no obvious sense organs. Because their biochemistry is based on sulphur instead of oxygen, it is much less efficient, thus even a sloth could outrun them. They are filter-feeders that use their branches to strain the water for plankton. By 3001 they've barely started using tools, just making ice igloos on the surface to avoid predators - after a thousand years they're still loosely at the level of the man-apes at the beginning of 3001 who started using bones as clubs. Yet there's a spark of pre-sapience in them now, as they are fascinated by metal objects left over from human probes, and arrange them in piles like cargo cults. A fitting close to the story that electrified America fifty years ago. (Well, the movie based on the story.) Clark closes the loop opened by the stirring overture music. Published in 1997, this story anticipates the ubiquity of computers, jihadist terrorism, and pandemics. This book could have been good. The story is reasonably interesting and the idea that Frank Poole might be woken up from his deep freeze offers some interesting plot possibilities.The Romeo of the Cosmos little, big, Pluto... But I digress after waking up the astronaut discovers he's living in a space elevator. One of four on Earth and towering above it a dizzy 22,000 miles high, looking from above seeing the planet changed immensely as he is astonished.

Yet Clarke has a weird take on religions (Ch. 9), which is hilarious, since the franchise is essentially Christian: Replace aliens with God, the monolith with Christ, and evolution with salvation, then you have the core Christian message. As Athanasius said, "God became man so that man might be god." ( On the Incarnation (De Incarnatione Verbi Dei)) What C. S. Lewis wrote about Christ applies to Dave Bowman: "In Christ a new kind of man appeared; and the new kind of life which began in Him is to be put into us." ( Mere Christianity). Introduction 3001: The Final Odyssey is a science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy in 2017. It is a continuation of the Odyssey series, which is based on the novels of Arthur C. Clarke. The show is set in the year 3001 and follows the adventures of the character Frank Poole in the world of the future. The show explores themes such as artificial intelligence, human evolution, and the exploration of outer space. I took 3001 on vacation because I wanted a fun, fast, mildly interesting read. It fit the bill wonderfully... it wasn't so complicated that I had to focus on it like a final exam, but it wasn't cotton candy either. That being said, you may be disappointed if you carry a lot of expectations about anything associated with the original 2001. "3001" is an engaging look at a possible future, but it most likely won't become a science fiction classic. The late Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorite science fiction writers and 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on an earlier short story of his, The Sentinel (1948), has always been something of a spiritual experience for me, even though I am not prone to spiritual experiences. But, given the prescient depiction of the moon and our galaxy in those pre-Apollo mission days, both film and book are breathtaking.

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The petabyte storage device, containing Halman and other lifeforms, but also infected with the virus, is subsequently sealed by scientists in the Pico Vault. At the close of the story, Poole and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans. A statement is made that the monolith's makers will not determine humanity's fate until "the Last Days". Written very vividly, it actually puts the reader in the middle of the situations describing almost everything that is necessary. Some parts of the text were edited repeats from Book 1 and 2. However, I felt they were interesting to read again. And the story is so plausible, even the civilization which created the Monolith can't just travel across the universe in matter of years, even if they could travel at the speed of light. (that is something that really bothers me in the distopyan sci-fi, they don't even try to solve that problem in any plausible way...) Corre el año 3001. No se sabe cómo, pero la Humanidad ha sobrevivido hasta los albores del tercer milenio d.c. Más allá de Neptuno una nave de carga detecta algo flotando en el espacio y lo recoge.........