2061: Odyssey Three | Techniques
Clarke builds this novel with characters sketched lightly, involved in various actions spread across the solar system. Intriguing or innovative aspects of setting, the details of times and places, are often summarized en route to the next event. The main character does not change significantly through conflict with a human antagonist, or through conflict with the environment, but Floyd is changed by unseen forces because of what he has learned throughout his life. The "conflict" Floyd bespeaks is that of human civilization expanding its frontiers, not the change of an individual person...
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