Article: Books: The odyssey finally runs out of space Graham Farmelo on the last instalment of a science-fiction saga

3001: The Final Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 272 pp THE WRITER Brian Aldiss was quite correct when he observed that science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. Although some scientists are quite happy for novelists to play fast and loose with hard-won scientific results, for others it seems absurd to decouple the rational and the imaginative elements of science. It's rather like watching tennis being played without a court.

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