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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Odyssey_III_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Odyssey III (disambiguation)">Odyssey III (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">2061: Odyssey Three <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=2061%3A+Odyssey+Three&rft.author=%5B%5BArthur+C.+Clarke%5D%5D&rft.date=December+1987&rft.pub=%5B%5BDel+Rey+Books%7CDel+Rey%5D%5D&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pages=256&rft.series=%5B%5BThe+Space+Odyssey+series%5D%5D&rft_id=info:oclcnum/16756201"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:2061OdysseyThree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/2061OdysseyThree.jpg/220px-2061OdysseyThree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/2061OdysseyThree.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="375" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Cover of the first edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Illustrator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Whelan" title="Michael Whelan">Michael Whelan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Odyssey_series" class="mw-redirect" title="The Space Odyssey series">The Space Odyssey series</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Del_Rey_Books" title="Del Rey Books">Del Rey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">December 1987</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback & paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">256</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-35173-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-35173-8">0-345-35173-8</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16756201">16756201</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">823/.914 19</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PR6005.L36 A617 1988</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two" title="2010: Odyssey Two">2010: Odyssey Two</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey" title="3001: The Final Odyssey">3001: The Final Odyssey</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>2061: Odyssey Three</b></i> is a science-fiction novel by the British writer <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>, published in 1987. It is the third book in Clarke's <i><a href="/wiki/Space_Odyssey" title="Space Odyssey">Space Odyssey</a></i> series. It returns to one of the lead characters of the previous novels, Heywood Floyd, and his adventures from the 2061 return of <a href="/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet" title="Halley's Comet">Halley's Comet</a> to <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>'s moon <a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a>. </p><p>Clarke had originally intended to write the third book after <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Galileo_spacecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Galileo spacecraft"><i>Galileo</i> mission</a> to Jupiter had returned its findings in the late 1980s. The probe had been initially scheduled for launch in 1984 but this was delayed, first to 1985 and then to 1986. It was delayed further in wake of the <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster" title="Space Shuttle Challenger disaster">Space Shuttle <i>Challenger</i> disaster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Deciding not to wait, Clarke took inspiration for his sequel from the return of Halley's Comet. <i>Galileo</i> was eventually launched by <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis"><i>Atlantis</i></a> on the <a href="/wiki/STS-34" title="STS-34">STS-34</a> mission in October 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It arrived in Jovian orbit almost eight years after the publication of <i>2061: Odyssey Three</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The opening chapters of <i>2061</i> gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. The new sun, dubbed "Lucifer", has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: <a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a> has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" title="Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a> a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale <a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_travel" class="mw-redirect" title="Interplanetary travel">interplanetary travel</a> is now commercially viable with <a href="/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion" title="Muon-catalyzed fusion">muon-catalyzed fusion</a>-powered spacecraft. 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. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, although a non-violent revolution has taken place in <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> (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. </p><p>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Heywood_R._Floyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Heywood R. Floyd">Heywood Floyd</a>, the protagonist of <i>2010</i>, has had an accident and become a permanent resident of an orbital space hospital. His estranged grandson, Chris II, works aboard the spacecraft <i>Galaxy</i>. Now, at the age of 103, Floyd is chosen as one of six "celebrity guests" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner <i>Universe</i> for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it again nears Earth. The <i>Universe</i> lands on Halley, and the crew explores its surface and its caves. </p><p>On Ganymede, Rolf van der Berg, a second-generation <a href="/wiki/Afrikaner" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaner">Afrikaner</a> refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. He communicates his discovery to his uncle Paul Kreuger, and van der Berg is also invited to join the crew of the spacecraft <i>Galaxy</i> for its flyby of Europa. As <i>Galaxy</i> nears Europa, Rosie, a stewardess, attempts to hijack the craft, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her plan, she commits suicide, and the <i>Galaxy's</i> crew is stranded. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots <i>Galaxy</i> to an island that they name Haven. </p><p><i>Universe</i> abandons its exploration of Halley to rescue <i>Galaxy</i>. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, <i>Universe</i> heads directly for Europa. During the flight, the celebrity passengers discuss the mystery surrounding Dave Bowman and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue <i>Galaxy</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s crew. Floyd follows a suggestion that he simply try to call Bowman on the radio, and later has a strange dream in which he sees a small monolith floating at the foot of his bed. </p><p>On Europa, Van der Berg and Chris Floyd take the shuttle <i>William Tsung</i> (nicknamed <i>Bill Tee</i>) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Berg relays the message "<a href="/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds" title="Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds">LUCY IS HERE</a>" to his uncle Paul. It is revealed that Van der Berg's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. The revelation about Mount Zeus explains how Van der Berg got onto <i>Galaxy </i>and why Rosie tried to hijack it; the rulers of the USSA are concerned and the exiled Afrikaners are interested about what might happen to the world diamond market if a vast mountain of diamond were discovered. </p><p>Travelling further, the two men find the wreck of the Chinese spacecraft <i>Tsien</i>, which has been completely stripped of its metals, and then find the enormous monolith lying on its side at the border between the dayside and nightside, dubbed the "Great Wall". Beneath it is a town of <a href="/wiki/Igloo" title="Igloo">igloo</a>-like dwellings, but the inhabitants are not in sight. There, Chris sees an image of his grandfather, who tells him that the <i>Universe</i> is coming. </p><p><i>Universe</i> rescues <i>Galaxy</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s crew; they are brought to Ganymede, where they watch as Mount Zeus, which has been steadily sinking, finally disappears beneath the Europan surface. Kreuger writes a follow-up article for <i>Nature</i>, stating that Mount Zeus was a mere fragment of Jupiter's diamond material, and that it is almost certain that many more such large pieces of diamond are currently in orbit around Lucifer. Krueger therefore proposes a scouting project to seek diamond in the Lucifer system, for eventual mining. </p><p>Floyd, Chris, and van der Berg become close. In a later chapter, another Heywood Floyd, now a disembodied creature of pure consciousness, talks with <a href="/wiki/David_Bowman_(Space_Odyssey)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Bowman (Space Odyssey)">Dave Bowman</a>. It is revealed that the small monolith duplicated Floyd's consciousness; there are now two Heywood Floyds, one an immortal being who resides with Bowman and <a href="/wiki/HAL_9000" title="HAL 9000">HAL</a> inside the Great Wall, another who will live and die without knowing this. Bowman shows Floyd images of his experience of studying the life forms of Jupiter before they were killed in the creation of Lucifer, explaining that the monolith weighed the Jovians against the Europans and decided the latter held more promise. Bowman states that during the diamond meteor impact, the immensely powerful monolith tipped over on its side, and may be damaged. He and HAL believe that when Lucifer begins to fail, the monolith will weigh the Europans against humanity and they have only about a thousand years to prepare for that moment. </p><p>In an epilogue, set in 3001, the original monolith discovered on the Moon in 1999 has been placed in the plaza of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations" title="Headquarters of the United Nations">United Nations Building</a>. Humans have found more quantities of diamond from the former Jupiter and have used it to create <a href="/wiki/Space_elevator" title="Space elevator">space elevators</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Orbital_ring" title="Orbital ring">orbital ring</a> connecting them, as suggested by Kreuger. Suddenly, Lucifer's light begins to fade and the Monolith reawakens for the first time in a thousand years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outside_references_to_scientific_literature">Outside references to scientific literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Outside references to scientific literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Late in the novel (Chapter 56, "Perturbation Theory"), two real scientific articles are explicitly cited by Paul Krueger, van der Berg's uncle. A 1981 article in <i><a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)">Nature</a></i> lends plausibility to <i>2061's</i> basic premise that other solar system bodies may contain massive quantities of diamond material,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and serves as the basis for <i>2061's</i> premise of a large diamond being discovered on Europa. A 1966 article in <i><a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a></i> examines the feasibility of various materials for the theoretical construction of a space elevator, identifying diamond as the best available known material,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and likewise serves as a basis for the space elevators (or towers) which extend from Earth's surface out into space. </p><p>The elevators are major pieces of technology in the sequel novel <i>3001</i>, and settings of much of the latter novel's action. The intervening implication is that over the next millennium, humanity finds other large sources of diamond in the Lucifer–Jupiter system, precipitate which resulted from the transformation of the latter into the former, and mines this diamond material, using it for (previously impossible) construction projects. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main_characters">Main characters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Main characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Dr. Heywood Floyd: Floyd is an elderly man, world-famous for his involvement with the <i>Discovery</i> and <i>Leonov</i> missions. His life has been extended because he has lived off Earth in lower gravity (which simultaneously prevents him from ever returning to Earth itself). Floyd travels with five other celebrities to Halley's Comet during its Earth approach aboard the <i>Universe</i>, a new, state-of-the-art spacecraft financed by the Tsung family.</li> <li>Christopher Floyd II is Floyd's grandson who hops various space flights and quietly finds work without keeping up with his family, to their dismay. He is second officer of the <i>Galaxy</i>, an older craft also financed by the Tsung family. He is estranged from his grandfather Heywood. One of the novel's themes, therefore, is that the protagonist reconnects with his family after years of estrangement both from them and from Earth.</li> <li>Rolf van der Berg is a Ganymede-based planetary scientist who develops a shocking theory regarding a structure on Europa. He has the opportunity to confirm his theory that Europa contains a giant diamond, a byproduct of Jupiter's collapse to become the small star Lucifer.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minor_characters">Minor characters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Minor characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Floyd Family: Early in the novel, Floyd's now-long-distant old family lives are re-capitulated. Marion, his first wife, had long since been killed in a plane crash, and their two daughters now have families of their own, and are effectively estranged from Floyd. Further, during the events of 2010, Floyd's second wife Caroline and their son Christopher I had learned to forget about him; Caroline took up with another man in Floyd's absence, and Christopher I found his father-figure in this man. Later, Chris I married one Helena, an arrangement of which both Floyd and Caroline had initially disapproved. Despite this, Helena proved to be a good mother to Christopher II.</li> <li>The Tsung Family: Family of Sir Lawrence Tsung, Chinese tycoon benefactor and shipbuilder, responsible for financing the story's spacecraft, the <i>Cosmos</i>, the <i>Galaxy</i> and the <i>Universe</i>. The Tsung family do not directly feature in the story, apart from being mentioned for their financial backing role, and in general descriptions of geopolitics. Lawrence is inspired to finance the development of spacecraft after reviewing the history of the <i>Tsien</i> disaster, which centers around the dramatic death of Rupert Chang (now identified with his first name in this novel), which had occurred in the previous novel and is retold in the current one. Tsung's wife is one Lady Jasmine; children include William Tsung, Charles Tsung and several unnamed siblings (in all, five brothers and five sisters), each subsequent birth requiring a very large, doubled fee per a modification of China's <a href="/wiki/One-child_policy" title="One-child policy">One-child policy</a>.</li> <li>The <i>Leonov</i> Crew: It is established very early on that all of the <i>Leonov</i> crew of 2010 have since died, with the lone exceptions of Floyd and Zenia Marchenko, the latter not otherwise figuring in the present story. In particular, it is revealed that Dr. Chandra died in hibernation during the <i>Leonov's</i> return trip, which is attributed to his sadness at losing HAL.</li> <li>Captain Smith: Captain of the <i>Universe</i>, Smith is a practical, stock captain character, concerned for the safety of his ship, his crew and his passengers.</li> <li>Yva Merlin, aka Evelyn Miles: A rather mysterious, aged movie star, who is emblazoned on the public consciousness for her earlier roles. Merlin joins the <i>Universe</i> voyage as one of its celebrity passengers.</li> <li>Dimitri Mihailovich: A classical composer who provides some comic relief, Mihailovich is another of the celebrity passengers. The name and minor character role echo the basic plot function of Dimitri Moisevitch, of the earlier works.</li> <li>Victor Willis: A pop-science personality with a prodigious beard, Willis is another of the celebrity passengers.</li> <li>Clifford Greenberg: First man to set foot on Mercury, "Cliff" is another of the celebrity passengers. He later becomes an honorary crew-member and is a more "useful" passenger due to his spaceflight experience.</li> <li>Margeret M'Bala: An author who popularized and explained the connections between ancient Greek and Roman mythology and now-common astronomical nomenclature, "Maggie M" is another of the celebrity passengers.</li> <li>George and Jerry: An old gay couple who are two of Floyd's longest and closest friends; they had worked in the arts in earlier life. George and Jerry help to manage Floyd's personal affairs while he is away.</li> <li>Eric Laplace: Captain of the <i>Galaxy</i>.</li> <li>Rosie: A stewardess who hijacks the <i>Galaxy</i>. Although her motives are never made perfectly clear, context strongly suggests that Rosie is affiliated with a South African faction of some kind, who have somehow learned of van der Berg's Europan diamond theory and want to make an investigation of their own. Shortly after her introduction, the character is inconsistently named as Rose McMahon or Rose McCullen. Later, the hijacker is identified as one Ruth Mason.</li> <li>Second Officer Walter Chang: Not to be confused with the <i>Tsien</i> astronaut, Walter Chang is the <i>Galaxy</i> pilot on duty when Rosie hijacks the ship and is charged by Rosie with landing on Europa.</li> <li>Paul Kreuger: van der Berg's uncle, Kreuger is entrusted with the secret of Europa's diamond deposit early on, and later opines in a letter to <i>Nature</i> on the implications of large quantities of diamond for construction, citing two real scientific papers.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2061:_Odyssey_Three&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2000, <i><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a></i> reported that MGM and actor/director <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hanks" title="Tom Hanks">Tom Hanks</a> were in discussions regarding adapting both <i>2061: Odyssey Three</i> and <i>3001: The Final Odyssey</i> into movies, with Hanks reportedly to play Frank Poole in the <i>3001</i> film. 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Kube-McDowell">Michael Kube-McDowell</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days" title="The Light of Other Days">The Light of Other Days</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)" title="Stephen Baxter (author)">Stephen Baxter</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Theorem" title="The Last Theorem">The Last Theorem</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Frederik_Pohl" title="Frederik Pohl">Frederik Pohl</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novel series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Space_Odyssey" title="Space Odyssey">Space Odyssey</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(novel)" title="2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)">2001: A Space Odyssey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two" title="2010: Odyssey Two">2010: Odyssey Two</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2061: Odyssey Three</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey" title="3001: The Final Odyssey">3001: The Final Odyssey</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rama series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama" title="Rendezvous with Rama">Rendezvous with Rama</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rama_II_(novel)" title="Rama II (novel)">Rama II</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Gentry_Lee" title="Gentry Lee">Gentry Lee</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Garden_of_Rama" title="The Garden of Rama">The Garden of Rama</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Gentry_Lee" title="Gentry Lee">Gentry Lee</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rama_Revealed" title="Rama Revealed">Rama Revealed</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Gentry_Lee" title="Gentry Lee">Gentry Lee</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Time_Odyssey" title="A Time Odyssey">A Time Odyssey</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Time%27s_Eye" title="Time's Eye">Time's Eye</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)" title="Stephen Baxter (author)">Stephen Baxter</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel)" title="Sunstorm (novel)">Sunstorm</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)" title="Stephen Baxter (author)">Stephen Baxter</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Firstborn_(Clarke_and_Baxter_novel)" title="Firstborn (Clarke and Baxter novel)">Firstborn</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)" title="Stephen Baxter (author)">Stephen Baxter</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short story <br /> collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Expedition_to_Earth" title="Expedition to Earth">Expedition to Earth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reach_for_Tomorrow" title="Reach for Tomorrow">Reach for Tomorrow</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart" title="Tales from the White Hart">Tales from the White Hart</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Sky" title="The Other Side of the Sky">The Other Side of the Sky</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Ten_Worlds" title="Tales of Ten Worlds">Tales of Ten Worlds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God_(collection)" title="The Nine Billion Names of God (collection)">The Nine Billion Names of God</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Of_Time_and_Stars" title="Of Time and Stars">Of Time and Stars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wind_from_the_Sun" title="The Wind from the Sun">The Wind from the Sun</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Arthur_C._Clarke" title="The Best of Arthur C. Clarke">The Best of Arthur C. Clarke</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sentinel_(anthology)" title="The Sentinel (anthology)">The Sentinel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Planet_Earth" title="Tales from Planet Earth">Tales from Planet Earth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Than_One_Universe" title="More Than One Universe">More Than One Universe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Arthur_C._Clarke" title="The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke">The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_Flight:_An_Introduction_to_Astronautics" title="Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics">Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Worlds_of_2001" title="The Lost Worlds of 2001">The Lost Worlds of 2001</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_View_from_Serendip" title="The View from Serendip">The View from Serendip</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact" title="2010: The Year We Make Contact">The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_the_World_Was_One" title="How the World Was One">How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Encyclopedia_of_Claims,_Frauds,_and_Hoaxes_of_the_Occult_and_Supernatural" title="An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural">An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="2001: A Space Odyssey (film)"><i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> (film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(comics)" title="2001: A Space Odyssey (comics)"><i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> (comics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact" title="2010: The Year We Make Contact"><i>2010: The Year We Make Contact</i> (film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God_(film)" title="The Nine Billion Names of God (film)"><i>The Nine Billion Names of God</i> (short film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama_(video_game)" title="Rendezvous with Rama (video game)"><i>Rendezvous with Rama</i> (video game)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Star_(The_Twilight_Zone)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Star (The Twilight Zone)">"The Star" (TV episode)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth_(album)" title="The Songs of Distant Earth (album)"><i>The Songs of Distant Earth</i> (album)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rama_(video_game)" title="Rama (video game)"><i>Rama</i> (video game)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Childhood%27s_End_(miniseries)" title="Childhood's End (miniseries)"><i>Childhood's End</i> (TV miniseries)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_in_media" title="Arthur C. 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