On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between the United States, Soviet Union and China, although a non-violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA) the white population has fled, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they do in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines.ĭr. Humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed "Mount Zeus", on its surface. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. The new sun, dubbed "Lucifer", has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Ganymede a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. The opening chapters of 2061 gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. It arrived in Jovian orbit almost eight years after the publication of 2061: Odyssey Three.Ģ061 is set 60 years after the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey and 51 years after those of 2010: Odyssey Two. Galileo was eventually launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission in October 1989. Deciding not to wait, Clarke took inspiration for his sequel from the return of Halley's Comet. It was delayed further in wake of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The probe had been initially scheduled for launch in 1984 but this was delayed, first to 1985 and then to 1986. It returns to one of the lead characters of the previous novels, Heywood Floyd, and his adventures from the 2061 return of Halley's Comet to Jupiter's moon Europa.Ĭlarke had originally intended to write the third book after NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter had returned its findings in the late 1980s.
It is the third book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. 2061: Odyssey Three is a science-fiction novel by the British writer Arthur C.
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