2061
A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey two. Two 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.
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- Absolutely amazing, changed the way I look at the society, will re-read:
- George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Loved:
- Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns
- Andy Weir, The Martian
- Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
- Greg Egan, Teranesia
Liked:
- Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three
- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Laws
- Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- Jonathan Slack, Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
- John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation (bought the audiobook for Wil Wheaton's narration)
- Ray Monk, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
- David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb
Found full of BS, did not finish:
- Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
Textbooks:
- order of 10^3 pages of Open University textbooks
- Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory
- Feynman & Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals
- Wald, General Relativity (5 chapters)
- Peskin & Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (5 chapters)
Not as bad as I felt before making the list, but underwhelming in terms of quantity. I intend to read a whole lot more in 2016.
- Arthur C Clarke's 2061 (sequel to 2001 and 2010) was also about about a troubled mission that finds life in Europa's oceans. Europa Report sounds like it might have been a little inspired by that novel?
- What is the scale of this scene? How tall is that wall?
I just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke's 2061 about people landing on Halley's Comet, so this video is a timely illustration of what they might have seen. :)
