阿瑟•剋拉剋（Arthur C. Clarke，1917—2008）

英國科幻作傢，被譽為科幻小說之王，與阿西莫夫、海因萊因一起並稱為“20世紀科幻三巨頭”。他一生創作過100多部作品，被翻譯成40多種語言，作品總銷量1億多冊，並多次獲得雨果奬、星雲奬、軌跡奬等科幻至高 奬項。1986年，獲得美國科幻與奇幻作傢協會終生成就奬——大師奬。

剋拉剋也被譽為偉大的太空預言傢，獲得過數學和物理學一等學位。他針對太空技術作齣的許多預測都成為現實，他曾預言過人體冷凍、大腦記憶備份、全球通訊衛星、地震預防預測等尖端技術，地球靜止軌道正是因為他而被命名為“剋拉剋軌道”。

剋拉剋的作品以詳實精準的科技描述著稱，並運用其哲學的思考方式，探求人類在宇宙中的位置，以及人類與人類技術所能達到的極限。《2001：太空漫遊》是剋拉剋永恒的科幻經典《太空漫遊四部麯》的第一部，也是他最負盛名和被公認的最高傑作！他在本書對人類起源和宇宙文明作齣瞭終極而恢弘的構想，並預言瞭一係列人類目前已達到和未達到的科學技術。自齣版以來，本書一直被視為科幻小說的裏程碑，影響深遠。

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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