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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
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Subject: Re: Discovery pods
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> 
> All of you people who claim that in the book 2001 Bowman retrieves
> his pod by remote control after his "helmetless" re-entry must have
> a different version of the book than I.

The pod reference is in the book *2010*, not 2001.  Strange, the book
2010 was a sequel to the movie 2001, not Clarke's book 2001.  Hence,
what is explained in the book 2010 is what happened in the first movie,
not the first book.

                      -- Walt