With a new introduction by the author

Publication date: March 1997 in trade paperback
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"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."
--Carl Sagan

Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong . . . and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.

Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.

Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman--the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith--streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . .

"Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."
--Time

"2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade."
--The San Diego Tribune

"Any review can only skim the surface of a book so full of riches as Odyssey Two. Indeed, it will take more than one reading to do justice to a work that has to be ranked second only to Rendezvous with Rama among Clarke's novels."
--The Chicago Sun-Times

"There are the usual examples of Clarke's inventive genius, those creative surprises that no one else can mold so well from the bare bones of scientific fact--whatever the work, his is science fiction at its purest and most wonder-full. In this case, it is a tour of Jupiter's major moons and the many layers of the Jovian mass itself, and the marvels to be found there."
--Asimov's Science Fiction

"Arthur C. Clarke's return to fiction is also a return to the familiar territory of the classic science-fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It is a thoroughly triumphant return, one of the outstanding works of Clarke's career."
--The Montreal Gazette