2001 vs Sphere: Which Should You Read?

2001 Arthur C. Clarke · 1968 ★★★★☆ 4.2 220 pages · ≈ 4 h 04 m · Moderate

A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it…

Sphere Michael Crichton · 1980 ★★★★☆ 3.8 371 pages · ≈ 6 h 52 m · Moderate

“For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky.”

Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of…