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However, she is actually around 77 years old. After a space shuttle accident, Faye is put into a cryogenic freeze for 54 years, which halts her aging process. When she awakens from cryogenic suspension, she finds herself in a world she doesn't understand, surrounded by people who claim to help her but take advantage of her vulnerability.
2061: Odyssey Three is a science-fiction novel by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1987. It is the third book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. It returns to one of the lead characters of the previous novels, Heywood Floyd, and his adventures from the 2061 return of Halley's Comet to Jupiter 's moon Europa .
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The term "bullet time" was first used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, [2] and later in reference to the slow motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne. [3] [4] In the years since the introduction of the term via the Matrix films it has become a commonly applied expression in popular culture.
Dr. Heywood R. Floyd first appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey as being in charge of the mission to investigate the alien Monolith found on the Moon. After the events that took place in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he is the protagonist of 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three. Floyd was born in 1958 in America, and by 1999 is chairman of the ...
3001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. One millennium later, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath, and revived. Poole is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001.
The story is based on Clarke's previous Space Odyssey novel series. In the introduction to the Time's Eye, Clarke describes the premise as "neither a prequel nor a sequel" to Space Odyssey, but an "orthoquel" [1] (a neologism coined by Clarke for this purpose, combining the word sequel with ortho-, the Greek prefix meaning "straight" or "perpendicular", and alluding to the fact that time is ...
PC: Real-time strategy: 2014 8 Local, Online Full Time Crisis II: Arcade / PS2: Shooter: 1999 2 Local Split, Shared* No* *Must own a GunCon 2: Time Crisis 3: PS2: Shooter: 2003 2 Local Split No Time Crisis 4: PS3: Shooter: 2007 2 Local Split No TimeSplitters 2: PS2 / Xbox / GC: FPS: 2002 2 Local Split No TimeSplitters: Future Perfect: PS2 ...