The Space Odyssey Series (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001)

I just finished reading the Space Odyssey "trilogy" by Arthur C. Clarke, who said "any good trilogy has no more than 4 books". I was a bit skeptical that I would like them at first, but I read the first one in a night and finished the rest on the same schedule. I won't go into the plot for this post because over a thousand pages is a bit too much to write about, but the plot is really rather simple to understand, though at times there is a lot of changing locations. I would say that these books are realistic science fiction (if that even exists) and that each is a relatively short read at just under 300 pages. These books move fast with a good amount of smaller plots occurring, though these never really distract the reader from the main plot, but rather add to it and sometimes tweak it in small ways. The style of writing is rather light, with not too much gravity even in the saddest of parts. Interestingly enough, no death is written about in detail, and the number of deaths is kept to a minimum. This book is rather lighthearted, and I would recommend it to pretty much everyone because it is well-written, action packed, and easy to understand, even though the technology is completely new.