"Arthur Clarke - The Lost Worlds of 2001" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clarke Arthur C)

BLAST OFF!

"Between the first and last decades of the Twentieth Century lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in morse code and global television from the sky, between Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and Kwame Chaka, Supreme President of the African Federation. But above all, it was the gulf between the first hundred-foot flight at Kitty Hawk, and the first billion mile mission to the moons of Jupiter. . . ."

This was the beginning of the first version of 2001-the version that never was published. Now at last you can go that first great voyage . . . a trip far different than that of 2001 . . . an adventure in many ways even stranger and more fascinating . . . as you move through time and space toward the extraordinary revelation that awaits you in-

THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
A SIGNET BOOK from
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
TIMES MIRROR

"Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem."

(HAL 9000, during Frank Poole's birthday party)

"Houston, we've had a problem." (Jack Swigert, shortly after playing the Zarathustra theme to his TV audience, aboard Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey)

CONTENTS

Foreword

1. View of the Year 2000 1
2. Son of Dr. Strangelove 2
3. The Sentinel 2
4. Christmas, Shepperton 4
5. Monoliths and Manuscripts 7
6. The Dawn of Man 8
7. First Encounter 9
8. Moon-Watcher 10
9. Gift from the Stars 11
10. Farewell to Earth 12
11. The Birth of HAL 13
12. Man and Robot 14
13. From the Ocean, from the Stars 16
14. With Open Hands 18
15. Universe 18
16. Ancestral Voices 20
17. The Question 21
18. Midnight, Washington 22
19. Mission to Jupiter 24
20. Flight Pay 24
21. Discovery 24
22. The Long Sleep 25
23. Runaway 26
24. First Man to Jupiter 27
25. The Smell of Death 28
26. Alone 29
27. Joveday 31
28. Jupiter V 31