Odyssey 2010 - The year we make contact

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Odyssey 2010 - The Year We Make Contact is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke from 1982. It was used as a template for the films 2010: The Year We Make Contact by Peter Hyams and Europe Report by Sebastián Cordero . 2010 is the second book of the four-volume Space Odyssey cycle, which also includes the novels 2001: A Space Odyssey , 2061 - Odyssey III and 3001 - The Last Odyssey .

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The narrative begins nine years after the 2001 events . A Soviet - US mission is sent to Jupiter in the spacecraft Leonov to find out what happened to Discovery One and its crew. When the crew reached the abandoned ship, the scientists reactivated Dr. Heywood Floyd and Dr. Chandra the computer HAL 9000 . HAL informs them that because of conflicting instructions, he got out of control and killed the Discovery One crew . Shortly afterwards, the black monolith near Jupiter turns into a wormhole from which David Bowman, the only survivor of the 2001 mission, emerges. He now exists as a non- material form of life and visits earth one last time to say goodbye to his relatives.

Bowman also appears to Floyd and warns him that the crew must leave the Jupiter area within 15 days. Floyd initially had difficulties convincing his crew of this plan, but after the sudden disappearance of the large monolith, they agreed. By using the engines of both spaceships, the Leonov can move away in time. The Discovery One is sacrificed and HAL takes for the survival of people in the Leonov his own death into account. Under the influence of the monoliths, Jupiter transforms into a small star , which creates living conditions on the surface of its moon Europa . Finally, on behalf of Bowman, HAL sends one last message to earth: “All of these worlds are yours - except Europe. Don't try to land there. Use them together. Use them in peace. "

The book ends with an epilogue about the inhabitants of the moon Europe, who will have developed into a civilization by the year 20.001 . The power of the monolith they worship as a deity keeps mankind from landing on Europe.

Differences from the film

  • In the book there is a competing Chinese mission to Jupiter, whose spaceship Tsien is destroyed by a life form after landing on the moon Europa , which - attracted by the light of the spaceship - emerges through a hole made in the moon's ice armor to refuel the ship grows up the ship. The theme was later used for the science fiction film Europa Report .
  • There is no manned mission to the monolith, so Maxim does not die in the novel.
  • In the film, the relationship between Russians and Americans is much more distant than in the novel and corresponds more to the Cold War climate of the time .

literature

  • Arthur C. Clarke : Odyssey 2010 - The Year We Make Contact . Heyne, Munich 2000.