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by Arthur C. Clarke · 2018

Contemporary / British English 2001: A Space Odyssey -- a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out -- a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them...

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