YMMV / The Space Odyssey Series

• Sequelitis: The Space Odyssey novels arguably decline in quality with each installment. Douglas Adams, for example, called the 2010 novel "like all the stuff that Kubrick had been sensible enough to leave out of 2001," by which he meant the Scenery Porn of the ecosystems on Jupiter and Europa. 2061 had many of the same kinds of tiresome scenes about hanging out with celebrities that Rama II did, and 3001 was widely criticized for bringing Frank Poole back from the dead, making the aliens malicious, ripping off the "computer virus" idea from Independence Day^note Clarke claims not to have seen Independence Day before having written 3001. He claims in the introduction to 3001 that the arrival of the spaceships in that film is like his Childhood's End, which really is a pretty loose comparison. and being an unusually short novel whose length was padded out by being printed in large type and having a long epilogue, which was mostly Clarke saying where he had gotten his ideas.

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