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This book was an unfortunate reminder that, for all his imagination, Clarke remained a creature of his time.
This is one of his last novels a novella, really and it was clearly an effort to imagine his idea of a plausible future utopia, but it fell well short on both plausibility, and utopia.
His faith in a technological ascension was so strong that it becomes detached here from humanity so many of his conceptions of thisyear future society are incoherent or morally repugnant yet go unremarked, that they can only be understood as the author's ideals.
E. g. : although there are onlybillion humans now, everyone subsists on artificial food brain scans deemed deviant get their users sequestered from society spirituality and psychotherapy are deemed pathologies that have "long since" been weeded out of society.
Uh sure. Not to mention the whole society getting billed as egalitarian, even though the narrative clearly dwells among the few highly privileged, with occasional dismissive glances at the indistinguishable masses who exist solely to serve the main characters.
Add in that there was almost no actual story, and what there was reduced the preceding mystique of the series the monoliths to a dumb machine.
Give me a break. Not a very strong ending to the series but it was still enjoyable, Ive enjoyed this series a lot, The first two were the best though,/Estrellas
Corre el año, No se sabe cómo, pero la Humanidad ha sobrevivido hasta los albores del tercer milenio d, c. Más allá de Neptuno una nave de carga detecta algo flotando en el espacio y lo recoge, . .
Mil años después del comienzo de la odisea con el hallazgo del primer Monolito, los dos protagonistas vuelven a ser los tripulantes originales de la Discovery: Frank Poole y David Bowman.
Recordemos: Poole fue golpeado por una cápsula espacial manipulada por el rebelde HAL en la primera entrega, cuando realizaba una actividad extravehicular para arreglar una supuesta avería también simulada por HAL.
Fue expulsado al espacio exterior y Bowman nada pudo hacer por él, Pues bien, Poole ha sobrevivido en estado de "hibernación" dentro de su traje dando tumbos por el espacio, hasta que, mil años después es recogido por la nave antes mencionada esto va a ser mucho suponer no.
Recordemos: Bowman, tras no poder rescatar a Poole, se enfrenta a HAL y es capaz de desactivarlo y recuperar el control de la Discovery.
Luego se acerca con una cápsula espacial hacia el gran Monolito que han descubierto en la órbita de Júpiter, y desaparece. Parece que pasa a formar parte del plan de los entes superiores que fabricaron los Monolitos, En las entregas posteriores aparece puntualmente para ayudar de una u otra forma a los humanos, Incluso llega a formar una entidad mixta fusionada con HAL Halman, tras el abandono definitivo de la Discovery en la segunda entrega,
Interesantes flashbacks a las entregas anteriores, Se cierran historias. Comprendemos un poco mejor las intenciones de los monolitos o de sus creadores,
Maravillosas proyecciones de cómo podría ser la humanidad y sus logros tecnológicos dentro de mil años, Quizá demasiado buenismo y confianza en el hombre, me parece a mi, pero bueno, de ilusiones también se vive,
Análisis restrospectivos de cómo a Humanidad ha superado comportamientos y conceptos que nos marcaron durante siglos: interesante como vamos a ser capaces de superar el concepto de "religión", por ejemplo.
Pero . qué pasaría si nuestros "creadores" no estuvieran contentos con el resultado final de su experimento y si no les gustara la deriva que han seguido los humanos en los últimos siglos Y si la información que les hacen llegar los monolitos, sus centinelas, no está actualizada, o llega con mucho retraso Y si los monolitos empiezan a estar un poco fuera de control y quieren priorizar sus propias creaciones
Me ha gustado que intenta cerrar la serie y redondear determinados conceptos.
Está un poco mejor escrito que los primeros libros y se agradece, Hay cosas que no cuadran con entregas anteriores la conexión entre Monolitos y entes superiores, por ejemplo,
El Final es bueno, si pensamos que el libro es de, Si lo vemos desde una perspectiva actual, puede ser una simpleza,
Dejo la frase final:
"Su pequeño universo es muy joven, y su Dios aún es un niño, Pero es demasiado pronto para juzgarlos, Cuando regresemos en los Últimos Días, ya pensaremos en lo que vale la pena salvar",
Gran serie cerrada y muy disfrutada, A great ending of a series, And it's even more astonishing that Arthur C, Clarke managed to end his famous series by writing an utopia, which is not so very common a genre, isn't it It's short, but it's really well done and the reason of taking us to the yearis brilliant.
Certainlyis as good as, “I am a Stranger in a Strange Time, ”
A fitting close to the story that electrified America fifty years ago, Well, the movie based on the story, Clark closes the loop opened by the stirring overture music, Published in, this story anticipates the ubiquity of computers, jihadist terrorism, and pandemics,
“Forget youre an engineerand enjoy yourself, ”
Curiously, his thesis is that mankind isnt responsible for our aggressive tendencies we were programmed that way by interfering aliens, Millions of years ago.
“He had to admit that the selection was well done, by someone Indra familiar with the early Twentyfirst Century, There was nothing disturbingno wars or violence, and very little contemporary business or politics, all of which would now be utterly irrelevant, ”
Rides his usual hobby horsesantiwar, antireligion, antigovernment, antianti, His ideas arent necessarily logical, but he presents them well, Not terribly interested in facts, When writing a book set in, who can say what they know about the world of
“Corpsefood was on the way out even in your time,” Anderson explained.
“Raising animals tougheat them became economically impossible,
Quibbles: “The general consensus about the single greatest work of human art, Over and over again, in almost every listingits Angkor Wat, ” his consensus “Lenin was unlucky he was born a hundred years too soon, Russian communism might have workedat least for a whileif it had had microchips, And had managed to avoid Stalin, ” hisperspective “How long would it take to build a superbomb” “Assuming that the designs still exist, so that no research is necessaryoh, perhaps two weeks.
Thermonuclear weapons are rather simple, and use common materials, ” Plutonium and refined Uwould not be common in a world with no nuclear reactors, I cant find a source, but I thought we knew that Ceres was mostly ice by, so ice mining in the Oort Cloud would be stupidly and expensively unnecessary.
Not to mention slow.
“For ordinary humans only two things were important: Love and Death, His body had not yet aged a hundred years: he still had plenty of time for both, ”
The little numbers on the dashboard on the left hand of my screen tell me that I have listedbooks on Goodreads up to now, so, of course, this is the one that has to go here.
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Set a thousand years after the original, obviously, Frank Poole returns and we see what has become of Hal and Dave, One of Clarke's themes is a warning about outofcontrol technology, It's the fourth book in Clarke's Odyssey sequence, but still fits in pretty well both narratively as well as thematically, The second book followed the original by nine years, and the third by sixty, so this one was quite a jump, Humanity has not progressed as well or as much as might have been predicted, and Clarke's decision to revive Poole makes it pretty seamless.
I didn't think the individual plot advanced the overall story well enough, and that Clarke didn't really have much new to say from a philosophical side different than what he'd already posited in the Rama books.
It was an okay read, in my opinion, but not a classic like the first, If I were going to write a novel about what human life might be like,years in the future, I know I'd want to give special attention to the question of whether males are still circumcised, and how that might affect their attractiveness to the opposite sex.
That's what Arthur C. Clarke must've been thinking as he worked on the first hundred pages of this, the fourth and final entry in his series.
In the second hundred pages, we get Clarke's laughably unintelligent screed against all religionconcluding with the assertion that everyone who has ever believed any religion is insane:
"Would you argue that anyone with strong religious beliefs was insane"
"In a strictly technical sense, yesif they really were sincere and not hypocrites.Is there anyone reading who hasn't been offended in one way or another yet But none of that is as insulting as the awful, awful, awful writing and story in .
As I suspect ninety percent were, "
Once again, Clarke demonstrates his talent for creating boring characters who don't do anything interesting or important, In this story, the body of Frank Poole is recovered from the far reaches of the solar system, andsurprise!he's still alive and in perfect hibernation, to borrow from Lando.
The reason for Frank's return is that Clarke needed Heywood Floyd but couldn't think of a way to make Floyd live till, So he brought Heywood back, but now called Frank Poole, But even if the philosophical outlook was insulting and the characters were bland, there was still a chance that the plot might have been intriguing.
But no. The ultimate resolution of the monolith mystery is that we never know for certain anything about the Firstborn, And then everything is solved with a hard drive full of computer viruses, Seriously. Oh, and Clarke does his gimmick of reusing entire chapters from previous books, So every now and then I would be reading, and suddenly think, "Wait a minuteis this that same chapter again" Yes: it happens five times in .
My reviews of the other books in the series:
sitelink : A Space Odyssey sitelink : Odyssey Two sitelink : Odyssey Three.
خب باید بگم که خوندنش از گروهان هم بیشتر طول کشید
هرکاری کردم نتونستم جذبش شم ینی صرفا تخیل بود نه هیجان البته خلاقیت نویسنده بیداد میکرد.
ولی در برخی جاها چنان به خودش سخت میگرفت و از کلممات سختی برای توصیف استفاده میکرد که نمیتونستم چیزی رو به تصور کنم.
شاید هم بخاطر ترجمه قدیمیش بود
ولی از فصل هایی که از زبان فرانک پول بودند تا دانای کل بیشتر لذت میبردم
یه نکته کوچیک هم داشت که نظرم رو جلب کرد. در فصلنویسنده بطور غیر مستقیم به الن تیورینگ اشاره کرده بود که خیلی خوشم اومد و باعث شد دوباره متوجه داستان شم
با همه این ها بدم نیومد و مایلم بقیه کتابای این مجموعه رو هم بخونم
The first two books in the series were very massive in scope, However, the final two books were very small scale, This final book, much like the series as a whole starts off strong but ends in a disappointing whisper,./. Mi ricorderò sempre di te, Dave, : The Final Odyssey is ultimately a flawed book, written to end a series which has sadly become increasingly redundant, Sad Yes, because Arthur C, Clarke was a phenomenally good scientist with a lively imagination and the ability to craft very readable novels,
is theth and final volume in Arthur C, Clarkes “Odyssey” series, starting with “”, The otherbooks are “o Odyssey” and “Odyssey”, I have to admit to not having read the middlebooks, but since Arthur C, Clarke himself regarded this group of novels as not a linear series, or even sequential in the traditional sense, this did not seem to matter.
The author tells us we should view the book as having some of the same characters and situations, with “variations on the same theme.
but not necessarily happening in the same universe, ” Hmm.
The starting point for this series was a short story by Arthur C, Clarke, “The Sentinel” written for the BBC inand, interestingly, rejected by them, Later on of course, with encouragement by Stanley Kubrick, this was hugely expanded and developed into the screenplay for “A Space Odyssey”, a cult film ofand still to my mind one of the most esoteric SF films ever made.
Arthur C. Clarke points out that the whole project for this was still prior to the moon landings, We did not even know what the lunar landscape looked like at that point, In the film “” the rocks on the moons surface appear a bit more jagged, but other than that it's a good approximation to say its all conjecture.
Surely this one point illustrates the impossibility of the task which Arthur C, Clarke ended up setting himself, Each novel became scientifically and politically redundant shortly after it was written, A classic dilemma of much SF, of course, particularly that which deals with Earthbound concepts of the near future, The novel we are looking at now, : The Final Odyssey was written inand reviewed here in, How can there be any consistency in the characters and situations when reallife events have overtaken them in so many ways Arthur C, Clarke would never compromise on the scientific elements, and it is well documented that many of his ideas have actually come to pass, But obviously not all!
Having said that, this is worth a look, if only to see what the black monolith was all about.
In this book, the astronaut Frank Poole did not die, but was in suspended animation foryears, Cue scope for a nice meaty tale of Earth and humankinds possible future, Oh, and something very strange has happened to Jupiter, Other than that my lips are sealed, .