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  Space Odyssey: Book 1

  2001

  A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  You are invited aboard the spacecraft Discovery on a voyage to the outer edge of the solar system. A crystal monolith left on the moon by an alien intelligence is the only clue to guide this probe of an ultimate mystery of the universe. Outside the craft is the black abyss of the unknown. Within are two increasingly frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative computer named Hal, whose... (more)
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  Space Odyssey: Book 2

  2010

  Odyssey Two

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  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... (more)
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  Space Odyssey: Book 3

  2061

  Odyssey Three

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it... (more)
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  Space Odyssey: Book 4

  3001

  The Final Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  It began four million years ago when a gleaming black monolith cast its shadow on the stark African savanna *an inexplicable apparition that ignited the spark of human consciousness, transforming ape into man. It continued at the dawn of the 21st century when an identical black monolith was excavated on the moon *propelling Dave Bowman and his deputy Frank Poole on a mission to Jupiter that ended in the mutiny of... (more)
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  2001: Space Odyssey (Penguin Readers, Level 3)

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  A strange enigma is discovered on the moon. The discovery has great implications and men are sent out deep into the solar system. But things begin to go horribly wrong ... Arthur C. Clarke collaborated with film director, Stanley Kubrick, writing the novel while Kubrick created the film.
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  2001 / Transit of Earth / The Fountains of Paradise / Childhood's End

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  Arthur C. Clarke reads selection from his own science fiction classics, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Transit of Earth and Other Stories, The Fountains of Paradise, and Childhood's End.