2010: Odyssey Two : 2010 Odyssey Two
2010: Odyssey Two, is a book by Arthur C. Clarke and the basis for a motion picture by Peter Hyams[?] titled 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The book is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. For both the book and the movie, the story is set nine years after the Discovery mission to Jupiter failed. A joint Soviet-American crew on the Soviet spaceship Leonov[?] arrives to discover what went wrong and to unravel the mysteries behind the monolith in orbit around the planet.Considering the impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey, this sequel is considered by many to be a disappointment. However, as a movie on its own, it is also considered to be quite good. The novel and movie do have some differences, most importantly the absence of the Chinese ship in the movie.
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CHAPTER XXX.
MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM.
MISS Cynthia Badlam was seated in a small parlor which she was
Poplars. The entry stove warmed it but imperfectly, and she looked
old house let in the chill blasts, as old houses are in the habit of
her. She had taken some papers from it, which she was looking over,
Gridley entered the parlor.
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piece of needle-work over it, putting the key in her pocket, and
Gridley saw through his round spectacles, but seemed not to see, and
provocation, without social pretext, was an event in the life of the
Miss Cynthia threw back the rather common-looking but comfortable
figure, arrayed with a still lingering thought of that remote
she adjusted the carefully plaited cap, which was not yet of the
her sex, she smiled a welcome to the respectable, learned, and
him, with a score or so of years to run, which it was after all not
of a well-conserved and amiably disposed woman, if any such should
Gridley. He had come on an inquisitor's errand, his heart secure, as
all resistance. He had come armed with an instrument of torture
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