3001: The Final OdysseyThe mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times). On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years after his death, Frank Poole is brought back to life—and thrust into a world far more technically advanced than the one he left behind. Poole discovers a world of human minds interfacing directly with computers, genetically engineered dinosaur servants, and massive space elevators built around the equator. He also discovers an impending threat to humanity lurking within the enigmatic monoliths. To fight it, Poole must join forces with Bowman and HAL, now fused into one corporeal consciousness—and the only being with the power to thwart the monoliths’ mysterious creators. “3001 is not just a page-turner, plugged in to the great icons of HAL and the monoliths, but a book of wisdom too, pithy and provocative.” —New Scientist |
Contents
Education | |
Braincap | |
Debriefing | |
THE KINGDOM OF SULFUR | |
Falcon | |
Escape | |
Fire in the Deep | |
Tsienville | |
Ice and Vacuum | |
The Little Dawn | |
The Ghosts in the Machine | |
Return to Olduvai | |
Skyland | |
Homage to Icarus | |
Here Be Dragons | |
Frustration I STAR CITY | |
Stranger in a Strange Time | |
GOLIATH | |
A Farewell to Earth | |
Transit of Venus | |
The Captains Table | |
Ganymede | |
Grand Hotel | |
The Madness of Mankind | |
Apostate | |
Quarantine | |
Venture | |
Foamscape | |
Nursery | |
TERMINATION | |
A Gentleman of Leisure | |
Contact | |
Judgment | |
Council of | |
Chamber of Horrors | |
Operation DAMOCLES | |
Preemptive Strike | |
Deicide | |
Pico | |
Epilogue | |
Sources and Acknowledgments | |
Valediction | |
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