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A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on the moon. Though not particularly fast paced, the science is good, and there are a few hair raising events. There are also interesting speculations about the future, such as the space shuttle, and a device eerily similar to an iPad. Leaving plenty of room for contemplation and the appreciation for the inevitable trials of space travel, this is one of the truly landmark pieces of hard science fiction.
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Human-computer interaction, Computers, Fiction, Science fiction, Twenty-first century, Space vehicles, Long Now Manual for Civilization, English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Large type books, Fiction in English, Saturn, Jupiter, space travel, alien artifacts, human origins, High interest-low vocabulary books, Readers, Fiction, science fiction, general, English literature, HAL (Fictitious character)People
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Penguin Readers Level 5: “2001”: A Space Odyssey
2008, Pearson Education, Ltd
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1405882360 9781405882361
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Edition Notes
Translation of 2001, a space odyssey.
Original english ed. was based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
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