{"subtitle": "Odyssey Three", "description": "A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books [2001: A Space Odyssey][1] and [2010: Odyssey two][2]. \r\n\r\nTwo expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths must once again confront David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Humanity is to play a part in the Evolution of the Galaxy whether it wishes to or not.\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL17365W/2001\r\n  [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL17413W/2010", "title": "2061", "dewey_number": ["823/.914"], "covers": [4747070, 382433, 6380476, 4076018, 13646237, 1008440, 10572671, 11583429, 12283408, 13496254], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape,\" remarked Dr. Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final printout."}, "first_publish_date": "1988", "subject_people": ["Heywood Floyd", "David Bowman", "HAL 9000"], "key": "/works/OL17408W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2623461A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["21st century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Science fiction", "Extraterrestrial beings", "Fiction", "General Science fiction", "Long Now Manual for Civilization", "Space vehicles", "Human-computer interaction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "English literature", "Twenty-first century"], "lc_classifications": ["PR6005.L3118 T93166 1990"], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "\"For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape,\" remarked Dr. Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final printout."}], "latest_revision": 23, "revision": 23, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T18:30:11.514899"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-02T21:12:29.608943"}}