阿瑟•克拉克（Arthur C. Clarke，1917—2008）

英国科幻作家，被誉为科幻小说之王，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因一起并称为“20世纪科幻三巨头”。他一生创作过100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，作品总销量1亿多册，并多次获得雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等科幻至高 奖项。1986年，获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终生成就奖——大师奖。

克拉克也被誉为伟大的太空预言家，获得过数学和物理学一等学位。他针对太空技术作出的许多预测都成为现实，他曾预言过人体冷冻、大脑记忆备份、全球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端技术，地球静止轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。

克拉克的作品以详实精准的科技描述著称，并运用其哲学的思考方式，探求人类在宇宙中的位置，以及人类与人类技术所能达到的极限。《2001：太空漫游》是克拉克永恒的科幻经典《太空漫游四部曲》的第一部，也是他最负盛名和被公认的最高杰作！他在本书对人类起源和宇宙文明作出了终极而恢弘的构想，并预言了一系列人类目前已达到和未达到的科学技术。自出版以来，本书一直被视为科幻小说的里程碑，影响深远。

Description (From the Publisher):

2001: A Space Odyssey – a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out – a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them…

Table Of Contents

Part One Ancient Night

Chapter 1 The Road to Death

Chapter 2 The New Rock

Chapter 3 Education

Chapter 4 The Leopard

Chapter 5 Meeting at Dawn

Chapter 6 The Beginning of Man

Part Two TMA-1

Chapter 7 Special Flight

Chapter 8 Special Station 1

Chapter 9 Moon Ship

Chapter 10 Clavius Base

Chapter 11 Anomaly

Chapter 12 Journey by Earthlight

Chapter 13 The Slow Dawn

Chapter 14 The Listeners

Part Three Between Planets

Chapter 15 Discovery

Chapter 16 Hal

Chapter 17 Daily Life

Chapter 18 Through the Asteroids

Chapter 19 Passing Jupiter

Chapter 20 The World of the Gods

Part Four Edge of Darkness

Chapter 21 Birthday Party

Chapter 22 Leaving the Ship

Chapter 23 Sickness

Chapter 24 Breakdown

Chapter 25 First Man to Saturn

Chapter 26 Conversation with Hal

Chapter 27 Hal's Secret

Chapter 28 In Vacuum

Chapter 29 Alone

Chapter 30 The Secret

Part Five The Moons of Saturn

Chapter 31 Survival

Chapter 32 Life in Space

Chapter 33 Ambassador

Chapter 34 The Orbiting Ice

Chapter 35 The Eye of Japetus

Chapter 36 Big Brother

Chapter 37 Experiment

Chapter 38 The Watcher

Chapter 39 Into the Eye

Chapter 40 Exit

Part Six Through the Stargate

Chapter 41 Grand Central

Chapter 42 A Different Sky

Chapter 43 Fireball

Chapter 44 Reception

Chapter 45 Memories

Chapter 46 Star-Child

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