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€œA daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001.€€"Carl Sagan

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 precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.

Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman€"the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith€"streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . . 

€œClarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play.€€"Time

€œ2010 is easily Clarke€s best book in over a decade.€€"The San Diego Tribune