Fifty years after the alien message forbidding humans to approach the moon Europa, an expedition to Halley's Comet is forced to violate the prohibition in the name of mercy. Though lacking the lyrical prose of The Songs of Distant Earth , Clarke's latest addition to the story begun in 2001: a space odyssey will entertain fans of the ``black monolith.'' For large sf collections. JC
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey landed in theaters 50 years ago today. I am old enough that I saw it first-run in the theater. I probably have seen again, at least in parts, dozens of time in the decades since. But I still remember the wonder of that first encounter. In honor of the […]