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2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001 .
2010: The Year We Make Contact (titled on-screen as 2010) is a 1984 American science-fiction film written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Hyams.The film was made as a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and adapts Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two.
In the two movies, Bowman is played by Keir Dullea. 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 ...
In the first, in 2010: Odyssey Two, millions of Monoliths are generated to transform Jupiter into a star, subsequently named Lucifer. In the second, in 3001: The Final Odyssey, millions of monoliths are generated to block both the Earth and human-settled Ganymede from their primary star in an attempt to destroy the humans. Other specific ...
Clarke wrote two further sequels which have not been adapted into motion pictures: 2061: Odyssey Three (published in 1987) and 3001: The Final Odyssey (published in 1997). 2061: Odyssey Three involves a visit to Halley's Comet on its next plunge through the Inner Solar System and a spaceship crash on the Jovian moon Europa.
In Chapter 13 ("Worlds of Galileo"), about 5 paragraphs from the end, there is the line "Leonov hurtled past the orbits of Io and tiny Mimas" - an odd error, given that Io is a Jovian moon, and Mimas a Saturnian moon.
21st: Moon near bright star Regulus in Leo in the evening sky. 25th : Penumbral lunar eclipse begins at 12:53 a.m. and ends at 5:33 a.m. Greatest eclipse at 3:13 am.
The First Men in the Moon; H.G. Wells, 1993. Wrote Introduction to the 1993 edition of this 1901 novel. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey to the Fabled Lost Civilization; Charles R. Pellegrino, 1993. Wrote Foreword. Seize the Moment: The Autobiography of Britain's First Astronaut; Helen Sharman, 1993. Wrote Introduction.