What can you say about Mr A.C. Clarke that ain't been said before?
Dunno? Not gonna then.
Plot: Following a disaster, wherein a chunk of Italy is damn near wiped from the map, the peoples of Earth join together and create a monitoring device, to detect objects hurtling towards them. Jump forward to 2200 and low and behold, one of them nasty meteor thingies is en-route...or at least, they think its a meteor. Turns out to be a large, dark, cylindrical object, and it's massive! Well, off go a team to have a butchers at the ol' goliath. Having committed a bit of B&E (breaking and entering folks), the captain and his crew encounter a world of possibilities and curiosities.
Pretty darn good writing.
The characters could have done with a touch more development, but the details and the imagination are second to none.
It's no real wonder that Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein were and are still the staple diet of any and all Sci-Fi enthusiasts.
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