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johanna started reading Stone and Anvil by Peter David (Star trek, new frontier)
Stone and Anvil by Peter David (Star trek, new frontier)
A crewman has been murdered aboard the USS Trident, and all evidence points to Ensign Janos of the USS Excalibur-A. …
johanna finished reading Gods Above by Peter David
johanna finished reading Being Human by Peter David (Star trek, new frontier ;)
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johanna started reading Being Human by Peter David (Star trek, new frontier ;)
Being Human by Peter David (Star trek, new frontier ;)
Throughout the Star Trek: New Frontier saga, Mark McHenry, the navigator on the USS Excalibur, has demonstrated abilities beyond those …
johanna finished reading Cold Wars (Star Trek New Frontier: Gateways, Book 6) by Peter David (Star Trek, new frontier)
johanna reviewed 3001: the final odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
entertaining
3 stars
much easier to get through than especially 2061, but ultimately very flat. many aspects should have been explored more. the utopia is incredibly dystopian in some ways that i think are worth exploring in context with the frightening nature of the "ultimate evolution" that so coldly decides over the life and death of the species it interferes with. it was quite fun and silly at times, not hard to get through and cleared up some mysteries. but especially since i can tell the author truly meant for the depicted society to be good and not as obviously alarming as it was to me, i can't give it, as Dave said "the benefit of the doubt" as much as i would like.
johanna finished reading 3001: the final odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
johanna started reading 3001: the final odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
3001: the final odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much …
johanna finished reading The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch
johanna reviewed 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke (Odyssey #3)
a mixed bag
3 stars
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The parts that fascinated me about especially 2010 really came out once more in this book. Where I learned a lot about especially Jupiters moons in 2010, I learned a bunch about Halley's comet and I have to say the first half of the book is my favourite.
There are many things I found intruiging, like the way that people who have been off Earth for too long cannot return because their bodies got too used to lighter gravity. A nice touch. I have to say I didn't get much of the stuff about South Africa. I don't know much about it so a lot of the political elaborations of Africa and Asia kind of went past me.
I have to say the abscense of Hal and Dave Bowman didn't bother me very much. I know many people are only into the series for them, and I get why, but I found it entertaining even without them.
I think in some ways the problems of this book are similar to the problems of the first book, 2001, and ofc the movie 2001. There are too many characters. This book has the advantage of them all living at the same time though. I think the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey is mostly about the evil computer to people, with some wondering why there's, like, an hour of different shit happening in it.
Anyway, back to 2061. I can imagine the amount of characters can get confusing if you read this casually. My least favourite part about this book is probably the ending, which is very weak in my opinion. I do appreciate the explanation of why they turned Jupiter into a sun in 2010 (up til then you were lead to believe they kinda did that just cuz) and I can even get into the idea of there having been Jovian lifeforms that were wiped out because of this. It perhaps adds a nice touch to the horror aspect I talked about before. But I don't really get why Floyd is now both alive as a normal guy and transcended humanity. Like I get it happened in his dream? But it feels like a copout. Lame.
If you didn't like 2010 and especially if you didn't like anything about it beside the stuff about the computer, you definitely won't like this one. One funny thing though is that Haywood Floyd only has two friends and they're a gay couple with a parrot and one of them sends him a message complaining about how gay warlords from history give him a bad rap. Which was not at all plot relevant and kind of hilarious.