2001: a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Author:Arthur C. Clarke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Movie novels, Fiction - Science Fiction, Classics, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Computers, Science Fiction - General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Twenty-first century, Space vehicles, Outer space, General, Human-computer interaction
ISBN: 9780451452733
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1999-07-15T16:48:24.760000+00:00

“We'll take care of it,” Bowman replied. “Let's see the optical alignment.”

“Here it is, Dave. It's still O.K. at the moment.”

On the display screen appeared a perfect half-moon, very brilliant against a background almost free of stars. It was covered with clouds, and showed not one geographical feature that could be recognized. Indeed, at first glance it could be easily mistaken for Venus.

But not at a second one, for there beside it was the real Moon which Venus did not possess - a quarter the size of Earth, and in exactly the same phase. It was easy to imagine that the two bodies were mother and child, as many astronomers had believed, before the evidence of the lunar rocks had proved beyond doubt that the Moon had never been part of Earth.

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