* {{Sequelitis}}: The Space Odyssey novels arguably decline in quality with each installment. Creator/DouglasAdams, for example, called the ''2010'' novel "like all the stuff that Kubrick had been sensible enough to leave out of ''2001''," by which he meant the SceneryPorn of the ecosystems on Jupiter and Europa. ''2061'' had many of the same kinds of tiresome scenes about hanging out with celebrities that ''[[Literature/RendezvousWithRama Rama II]]'' did, and ''3001'' was widely criticized for bringing Frank Poole [[DeathIsCheap back from the dead]], making the [[AliensAreBastards aliens malicious]], ripping off the "computer virus" idea from ''Film/IndependenceDay''[[note]]Clarke claims not to have seen ''Independence Day'' before having written ''3001''. He claims in the introduction to ''3001'' that the arrival of the spaceships in that film is like his ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', which really is a pretty loose comparison.[[/note]] and being an [[ItsShortSoItSucks unusually short novel]] whose length was padded out by being printed in large type and having a long epilogue, which was mostly Clarke saying where he had gotten his ideas.

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