![]() ![]() However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Soviets have an advanced new "Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.Ī joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the famous cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. The novel was adapted for the screen and released as a film in 1984. ![]() It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983. ![]() Clarke, which was published in January 1982. “2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. ![]()
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