Oct 13, 2008

2061: Odyssey Three | Characters

The main character in 2061: Odyssey Three, Dr. Heywood Floyd, has lived to the age of 103 through episodes of hibernative preservation following serious injuries, and through life in an off-world orbiting hospital. He is said to have the body of a man of sixty-five. Once widowed, once divorced, Floyd is a distant father to people whom he seldom sees and scarcely knows. While he and other characters think of or briefly mention interpersonal relations, he is posed as essentially beyond concern for a love life and only minimally and sporadically involved with family members.

Floyd...