2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey #2)
2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey #2)
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Desc: Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001 a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman. Without warning a Chinese expedition targets the same objective turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter. Meanwhile the being that was once Dave Bowman--the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith--streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own...