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snubnose:
Yeah I never read the sequels.

pelotard:

--- Quote from: shanejayell on 24 Oct 2021, 18:43 ---Hmm. AI with a very unique body? Or 2001 reference?

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If they had served the monolith a latte, 2001 would have had a very different plot.

Tova:
I was going to make a wisecrack yesterday about how Jeph is really phoning it in with new character design these days, and now after seeing Jeph's note today, I wish I had.

b_jonas0:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 26 Oct 2021, 19:23 ---The slabs in both sequels (I own all 3 books) can. 
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There are three sequels, four books in total.  The last one has a starting point similar to Lem's Fiasco: a person from our time is woken up in the far future, and tries to find their place in its very different society.

Akima:

--- Quote from: shanejayell on 25 Oct 2021, 19:08 ---Kida nit picky, but as I remembered it was based off existing works....
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I think off Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", at least partly.

--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Oct 2021, 14:32 ---The cubes from 2001 didn't float.
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In the novels and in the films, the dimensions of the monoliths are in the precise ratio of 1:4:9 (the squares of the first three positive integers), so definitely not cubes. Jeph seems to have got the proportions about right.

I suppose we can deduce that anti-gravity is a thing in the QCverse, and that Slab can interact with point-of-sale terminals.

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