书名：2010: Odyssey Two 太空漫游四部曲2 Arthur C. Clarke 科幻小说

作者：Arthur C Clarke

出版社名称：Del Rey Books

出版时间：1984

语种：英语

ISBN：9780345303066

商品尺寸：10 x 2 x 17 cm

包装：简装

"A 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 . . .

"Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."--Time

"2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade."--The San Diego Tribune

Arthur C. Clarke has long been considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and was an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke--both fiction and nonfiction--have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He died in 2008.

"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."--Carl Sagan

"Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."--Time

"2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade."--The San Diego Tribuneafter so many surprising books, that he managed to surprise me again."

--Sam Anderson, "The New York Times Magazine"

"Profound . . . A multilayered narrative of loyalty and loss . . . A fully articulated vision of a not-quite-nightmare world . . . A big sprawling novel [that] achieves what is perhaps the primary function of literature: to reimagine, to reframe, the world . . . At the center of ["1Q84"'s] reality . . . is the question of love, of how we find it and how we hold it, and the small fragile connections that sustain us, even (or especially) despite the odds . . . This is a major development in Murakami's writing . . . A vision, and an act of the imagination."

--David L. Ulin, "Los Angeles Times"

"Murakami is clearly one of the most popular and admired novelists in the world today, a brilliant practitioner of serious, yet irresistibly engaging, literary fantasy . . . Once you start reading "1Q84," you won't want to do much else until you've finished it . . . Murakami possesses many gifts, but chief among them is an almost preternatural gift for suspenseful storytelling . . . Despite its great length, [his] novel is tightly plotted, without fat, and he knows how to make dialogue, even philosophical dialogue, exciting . . . Murakami's novels have been translated into a score of languages, but it would be hard to imagine that any of them could be bette

A "New York Times" Notable Book

A "Washington Post" Best Book of the Year

"Brilliant. . . . An irresistibly engaging literary fantasy. . . . Murakami possesses many gifts, but chief among them is an almost preternatural gift for suspenseful storytelling."

--"The Washington Post"

"A grand, third-person, all encompassing meganovel. It is a book full of anger and violence and disaster and weird sex and strange new realities, a book that seems to want to hold all of Japan inside of it."

--"The New York Times Magazine"

"Bewitching. . . . Part noir crime drama, part love story, and part hallucinatory riff on "1984." . . . You don't know where things are going while you read it, and you can't say exactly where you've been when you're finished, but everything around you looks different somehow. If this is fiction as funhouse, it is very serious fun, and you enter at the risk of your own complacency."

--"Newsweek"

"A magical journey to a parallel world . . . "1Q84" is a love story and a detective story. It's a philosophical novel about the power of storytelling, the nature of reality, and the shifting balance of good and evil. . . . Once the narrative begins to pick up, you have no desire to put the book down."

--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"A weirdly gripping page-turner. . . . Its tonal register--as if serving as an antidote to the unsettling world it presents--is consistently warmhearted, secretly romantic, and really quite genial."

--Charles Baxter, "The New York Review of Books"

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"Fascinating. . . . More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world, and he's not afraid to incorporate elements of surrealism or magical realism as tools to help us see ourselves for who we really are. . . . A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to--and a few things we never even knew to expect."

--"The San Francisco Chronicle"

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"Magnificent in many ways, a work of the imagination that defies description. . . . An immersive experience, one that will leave readers wondering what is real and what is imagined."

--"Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"

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"[A] Japanese novel set in Tokyo in which the words 'sushi' and 'sake' never appear but there are mentions of linguine and French wine, as well as Proust, Faye Dunaway, "The Golden Bough," Duke Ellington, Macbeth, Churchill, JanAEek, Sonny and Cher, and, given the teasing title, George Orwell? . . . This is Murakami's unflagging and masterful take on the desire and pursuit of the Whole."

--Paul Theroux, "Vanity Fair"

"Profound. . . . A multilayered narrative of loyalty and loss. . . . A big sprawling novel [that] achieves what is perhaps the primary function of literature: to reimagine, to reframe, the world. . . . A vision, and an act of the imagination."

--"Los Angeles Times"

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"The international literary giant at his uncanny, mesmerizing best. . . . Translation is at the center of what Murakami does; not a translation from one tongue to another, but