 okay it's time to talk about this piece of shit because that's what it is I had read 2061 in the late 80s when it came out but over the years I kind of forgot about the way in it and I only remembered the parts that I liked and when I reread it now I was just infuriated and I had sworn that I would never read 3001 again when it first came out in what was it 97 98 a friend of mine called me on the phone just to tell me how much he hated it and he said you're gonna hate it paid one you're gonna hate it so I went out and got it and he was right paid one I hated it and I hated it all the way through and I swore I've never read it again but I saw it on the shelf at the library here and I was I was reading the other books for these reviews and I was noticing how slim the book was that's the one thing it has in common with the original book it's it's very similar to the original and how short it is in the arrangement of the chapters so I read it again you've already seen what happened at the end of 2061 go back and look at that video if you haven't seen it it'll make you mad it'll make you really mad but here's what happens in 3001 right at the beginning of the book a deep space mining expedition finds Frank pool's body that's chapter one you turn the page and beginning of chapter 2 it says when Frank pool woke up and and you're like what what as if dying and your body floating in deep space for a thousand years a thousand years is just like hibernating no no see nobody's get nobody accepts that I don't think anybody accepts that I sure don't then the first half of the book is Frank pool running around in the year 3001 and there is nothing interesting about the world of 3001 that Arthur C. Clarke has created there's nothing interesting about it there are space elevators and a ring around the earth that are made out of diamond but there's he doesn't describe them in any interesting way there's nothing interesting going on people are using genetically engineered dinosaurs as gardeners and babysitters and there's just kind of a throwaway comment basically there's a woman who's been assigned to Frank pool to to to be like his chaperone and they kind of get sweet on each other it's silly and then in the second half of the book Frank pool gets in touch with the ghost of of David Bowman and by this time the the ghost of David Bowman which is just a simulation we've been told that in the last book is just a simulation that's being run inside the monolith and David Bowman and the how 9000 simulations have been inside the monolith been running inside the monoliths for a thousand years and the two of them have kind of merged into a single personality that's kind of emotionless and Clarke describes them as Hal man not David Bowman and how 9000 just Hal man and the two of them have determined that that the monolith is broken there's something wrong with it there they've been doing the best they can to figure out how the things work and how how how it's built it's too complicated for them but they're they're doing what they can and they've determined that it's broken I mean Arthur C. Clarke he's not just tearing down the whole David Bowman and transcendency of the human race he's also tearing down the monoliths too and he's doing it deliberately and you're like why is he doing this well Lucifer is burning out and Hal man is warning that the monoliths are gonna be forced to make a decision between the human race and the Europans the primitive Europans why why would they need to do that according to to what Clarke did in 2061 and 3001 the monoliths are just a bunch of fuck-ups why Arthur and then get this you're not gonna believe this when I say it if you don't if you don't believe what's already happened it gets worse you're not gonna believe this when I say it the book ends he stole the ending of independence day 3001 final odyssey ends like independence day I can't even make myself say it they upload a virus into the monolith and the monoliths just crumble end of the book so don't please don't read the book please don't don't spend any money on it and of course this is the book that Ridley Scott is going to turn into a mini series on HBO or whatever of course this is the book he's gonna do this idea of a book in the odyssey verse taking place a thousand years in the future could have been really interesting but Arthur C Clarke chose to this was near the end of his life and his writing hadn't been any good for quite a long time it there's an epilogue in the book where he he said this is my book I wrote all of this he actually makes a point of saying that and people must have been given him shit even before it was published people must have been telling him this is bad Arthur why are you doing this when I first read it 15 or 20 years ago I thought it wasn't his his writing I thought it couldn't be his I thought Gentry Lee had written it Gentry Lee ghost wrote for Arthur C Clarke and his writing is terrible it's nothing like Arthur C Clarke but when I read all four of these books together just now in quick succession I could see that 3001 was Arthur C Clarke's style it was definitely his style he definitely wrote it like I said a couple of videos ago when it comes to fiction you can just ignore bad sequels you can just ignore any parts that you want remember just remember the parts that you like and pretend that the other parts don't exist because it's fiction it doesn't matter but when the author who wrote the original that you love so much is the guy who writes the bad stuff that tears down the original it makes you angry it can't help but make you a little bit angry I still love the original though and I'll I'll keep loving it and I'll keep talking about it there were other videos that I wanted to make in this series but I'm going to end this series now so I can get on with the job of reviewing more science fiction books which is what this series is supposed to be about and I'll make a special video about Jack Kirby's comic books and a special video about the music of 2001 and a special video maybe about the legacy of 2001 because there are things there are things I want to talk about so now that this nightmare is over I will get on with making episode 101 and I don't know what that will be yet but I'll see you then bye you can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron there's a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumblr that's my headquarters in addition to my videos I publish links and updates there every day