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2071: the third oddesy.
I had heard good things about the first one and happened to just see this one in my high-school library. I had a book report due soon so I binged it.
This is the single most boring Sci fi novel I've ever read. It goes on and on and on about the various technologies of the various vehicles of the future. The most exciting part is a flashback to a previous book in which a character kicks a plant, second most is a relatively relaxed flight through a comet.
Normally I can plow through the couple hundred pages in a night, this one took me a bit longer because of how dry it was. There was a entire section on some kind of spinning windshield design used on boats to make sure visibility was always crystal clear.
2061? The plot looks odd and Clarke's forecast for South Africa really was a swing and a miss. The plot for 3001 is really bad with the painful trope of "We just used a computer virus!".