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The little numbers on the dashboard on the left hand of my screen tell me that I have listed 3000 books on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ up to now, so, of course, this is the one that has to go here...

Set a thousand years after the original, obviously, Frank Poole returns and we see what has become of Hal and Dave. One of Clarke's themes is a warning about out-of-control technology. It's the fourth book in Clarke's Odyssey sequence, but still fits in pretty well both narratively as well as thematically. The second book followed the original by nine years, and the third by sixty, so this one was quite a jump. Humanity has not progressed as well or as much as might have been predicted, and Clarke's decision to revive Poole makes it pretty seamless. I didn't think the individual plot advanced the overall story well enough, and that Clarke didn't really have much new to say from a philosophical side different than what he'd already posited in the Rama books. It was an okay read, in my opinion, but not a classic like the first.