| Re: Favourite Clarke
Though I haven't read anything of his outside the Odyssey series, I saw the movie Night Fall, the one with David Caradine, and just loved it. I think the entire Odyssey series is fantastic, and just love the conclusion 3001, where we learn the monolith is a computer put on earth to monitor humanity. Upon David Bowman and Hal being absorbed by the Monolith and warning humanity that it may destroy earth because of their bad development, and they decide to destroy the computer before it destroys them, by giving Bowman a computer virus to make it go haywire, was real nice touch, and really mind blowing to me was also they gave Bowman a computer disc to download themselves onto after the monolith was destroyed was really an incredible idea. In essence it says to me that computers can make us immortal, very much inline with Clarke's belief that a sufficiently developed technology would be indistinguishable from magic. |