Mixed but scientifically interesting

A mixed appreciation for this novel. In fact, many repetitions of passages in previous episodes that fill the pages and make daide memory office (previous Odysseys but also other novels from his pen as The City and the Stars and The Fountains duParadis) rather than actually innovate. But the author does not hide sen. We review the matter and is abundant!

This time we follow Frank Poole, recovered 1,000 years after that it has derived in space and especially that there is incredibly survived! It is fun to see how a true living relic can adapt to a world equally unknown if Poole landed on another planet. Unlike that it is easier for him to adapt for a contemporary lan 1000 which would make the same time hopping! At first he is forbidden to set foot on land. 1000 years in space, weightless, it would kill him without fail. We will see that no, that he may go back through advanced and a stay in Moon technologies towers that connect Earth to stations in geostationary orbit by a long cable 35 000 km. An old dream of Clarke already mentioned but which could become reality if the man finally devoted his money and research to areas other than military and the destruction of the planet in general (Clarke is also a full-time environmentalist!).

The earth has again become a kind of Eden. The fossil sources of energy nexistent more advantageously and were replaced by clean energy thousands of times more effective (as he says: one does not fly a plane with coal, this is pretty much what was lon using jusqualors kerosene). They have also led to major discoveries such as inertial propulsion Clarke explains in one of the appendices of this novel. This type of propulsion could subject the vessel and its occupants quasi speeds near that of light without naient impression that they move. That seems unlikely but entirely plausible and is the quantum physics. There are also four towers that now sélèvent the four corners of the Earth, as four buildings of millions of floors. The filament that connects the ground is diamond, one possible material for this type of construction. And the four towers will be connected by a network of "roads" space. Once again, a subject dear to Clarke: his city of space finally become a reality. It will also develop an appendix this senseless project that could be implemented and would save time and money humanity as a whole but also make him a quantum leap in the field of medicine, relieve the world of its overcrowding and allow the departure of vessels to other worlds as easily as if we took his bicycle to get to the next village. I leave it to you to find out. This is mind-boggling.

Well, the driver of the novel wire is outside these technological prowess. Frank is again in contact with Bowman and HAL, renowned Halman because you can not distinguish apart from one another. Halman is there to monitor human, for lintermédiaire the monolith machine it is now part. But Halman has kept some dhumanité and Frank warns that the Galacticos decided darracher the weed that the human race represents (nayant received the reports of the monolith of the twentieth century, the century called "century of torture" by the humans themselves) . With Halman, the plans of these "gods" will be thwarted.

Combining real and fictitious events, Clarke serves us quite unconvincing romance as the plot is weak although rich in discoveries of worlds orbiting Jupiter and technical prowess for a future likely. This is what makes him a writer like no other. As I say every time: he mixes poetry and science with a rare ability and keeps us in suspense even though the scenario is feeble compared to what he has accustomed us. However, it must go all end because the last pages and especially the epilogues are full of surprises and are démerveillement source.

Clarke does not miss with humor, you know, and I have pinned these few pearls where he pays his head ufologists and especially so-called "contacted". At that distant century, these are people psychologically sick of what one calls "the disease dAdamski". It also pays the head crazy beyond psychoanalysis and Freud in particular (in the States one must have a car, a shrink and play football to earn his degree, this is known). Of course, he does not hesitate dégratigner again religion and religious fanatics. And finally there was this eloquent and heavy sentence meaning: "an intellectual is someone who was educated beyond his intelligence." To think!