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The Lost Worlds of 2001
By
Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
BLAST OFF!
 
     "Between the first and last decades of the Twentieth Century lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in morse code and global television from the sky, between Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and Kwame Chaka, Supreme President of the African Federation. But above all, it was the gulf between the first hundred-foot flight at Kitty Hawk, and the first billion mile mission to the moons of Jupiter. . . ."
 
     This was the beginning of the first version of 2001-the version that never was published. Now at last you can go that first great voyage . . . a trip far different than that of 2001 . . . an adventure in many ways even stranger and more fascinating . . . as you move through time and space toward the extraordinary revelation that awaits you in-
 
     THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
A SIGNET BOOK from
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
TIMES MIRROR
 
     "Sorry  to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem."
 
     (HAL 9000, during Frank Poole's birthday party)
 
     "Houston, we've had a problem." (Jack Swigert, shortly after playing the Zarathustra theme to his TV audience, aboard Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey)
 
     CONTENTS
 
     Foreword
 
1. View of the Year 2000  1
2. Son of Dr. Strangelove      2
3. The Sentinel      2
4. Christmas, Shepperton      4
5. Monoliths and Manuscripts      7
6. The Dawn of Man      8
7. First Encounter      9
8. Moon-Watcher      10
9. Gift from the Stars      11
10. Farewell to Earth      12
11. The Birth of HAL      13
12. Man and Robot 14
13. From the Ocean, from the Stars      16
14. With Open Hands      18
15. Universe      18
16. Ancestral Voices      20
17. The Question      21
18. Midnight, Washington      22
19. Mission to Jupiter      24
20. Flight Pay   24
21. Discovery      24
22. The Long Sleep 25
23. Runaway      26
24. First Man to Jupiter      27
25. The Smell of Death 28
26. Alone      29
27. Joveday      31
28. Jupiter V     31
29. Final Orbit 32
30. The Impossible Stars 33
31. Something Is Seriously Wrong with Space 33
32. Ball Game  34
33. Last Message      35
34. The Worlds of the Star Gate  35
35. Reunion      36
36. Abyss      38
37. Cosmopolis      39
38. Scrutiny      41
39. Skyrock      42
40. Oceana      43
41. Into the Night Land      44
Epilogue      46
 
     FOREWORD
 
     Behind every man now alive stand t ............

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