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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 .
Arthur C. Clarke incorporates suspended animation in works such as Childhood's End (1953), The Songs of Distant Earth (1986), and the Space Odyssey series (1968–1997) to enable interstellar travel. In Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, the character Frank Poole is cryopreserved in space and revived a thousand years later.
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.
In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the world of Aionios is in a state of constant stasis, referred to as "the endless now", as a result of Z taking control of Origin. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Stasis is one of the Runes Link can use. It allows him to freeze objects in suspended time and launch them by building up kinetic energy.
Space Odyssey is a science fiction media franchise created by writer Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, consisting of two films and four novels. The first novel was developed concurrently with Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film.
Some critics have compared the premise to that of Lost in Space [8] or Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and view the special effects as an imitation of the latter. In a review for TV Zone magazine published in 2002, Andrew Pixley praised the acting, music and direction, commenting that the programme "oozes with the charm associated with ...
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 ...
2001: A Space Odyssey; 2001: A Space Odyssey in popular culture; 2001: A Space Odyssey (comics) 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) 2001: A Space Odyssey (score) 2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) 2010: Odyssey Two; 2010: The Year We Make Contact; 2061: Odyssey Three; 3001: The Final Odyssey