2010: Odyssey Two
First UK edition cover – 1982
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| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Cover artist | Michael Whelan |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Space Odyssey |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Granada Publishing Ltd. |
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Publication date
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1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 291 (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Followed by | 2061: Odyssey Three |
2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, but continues the story of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation with the same title rather than Clarke's original novel, which differed from the film in some respects.
Set in the year 2010, the plot centers on a joint Soviet-American mission aboard the Soviet spacecraft Leonov. The mission has several objectives, including salvaging the spaceship Discovery and investigating the mysterious "monolith" discovered by Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983. The novel was adapted for the screen by Peter Hyams and released as a film in 1984.
The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.
A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new "Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew.
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