"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."
- Carl Sagan

Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S. - Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft - to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong... and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.

Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.

Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman - the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith - streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own...

"Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."
- Time

"2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade."
- The San Diego Tribune