A book that collects a complete imagery of the great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke,en. Since the appearance of: 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968 until the final sequel: 3001 Final Odyssey published in 1997 we contemplate a whole creative evolution of one of the most transcendental writers.
Transcendental because in his dedication to Science Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke wrote projecting the imagination towards the search for answers about that cosmos that cradles our world and our existence.
Almost all of us remember that monolith discovered by some hominids from our proto-world, and the literary wanderings that are projected from there. Within the recognition of our reason as a limited tool and driven towards the structured and orderly, Clarke peered into the dark chaos out there and invited us on the literary journey par excellence in the science fiction genre.
Odyssey is the most appropriate term for a new kind of epic poem of the stars.
To tell the truth, the first of the novels in this volume is the most interesting to me, the one that conveys the greatest weight and the one that maintains the authenticity of the story imagined from the first moment to be taken to the cinema. But it is also true that the rest of the novels preserve that intention of taking us on a journey in search of exointelligence, of new stars and their necessary lights, of black holes full of wisdom absorbed for an infinite time, attracting huge amounts of unattainable space, perhaps even of God. ...
It all started with that monolith ... with Strauss's symphonic poem.
The reference years are 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001. And through all of them the own mystery that our desire for knowledge unfolds as soon as this interstellar epic is proposed to us is awakened.
Under this premise, Clarke above all handles one aspect that triggers everything: suggestion. It is clear that our reason cannot reach the unknown, the immense, the cosmos up to the gorge where the known space ends towards nothingness, but the suggestion comes to touch something, to feel that you can really have a moment of lucidity where your subconscious begins to take control ...
We are HALL 9000, a machine capable of processing millions of data. And yet we are an outdated computer as soon as we step into the black jaws of the night. But Clarke does not surrender to this perception, in each of these four novels his imagination offers us authentic literary orgams perfectly compatible with the cinematographic.
As a closing of this book, 3001 Final Odyssey will not offer you all the answers, of course, but it will close an interstellar journey that in turn supposes a look at the past, at our history, at the space scientific advance from the 70s to the 90s. Frank Poole is the last protagonist who will see the world threatened and will set out in search of David Bowman, the first traveler in the saga, the one who was stuck in an eighteenth-century room with white and luminous walls. Perhaps he already knows what the monolith with which it all started means.
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