Summary
In the book "2001" astronaut Frank Poole was cryogenically frozen after Hal the computer killed him. In "3001" he's resurrected in a society far more advanced than the one he departed-one in which humankind is in serious danger.
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"The many social views implicit in the book are those of a sane, cultured man of the 20th century, those of, say, Mr. Clarke, whose interesting nonfiction addendum contains technical, historical, and personal notes that reveal the author's kindness and scientific knowledge." -- John Allen Paulos
-- New York Times Book Review
"This novel recapitulates, revisits major themes, gathers up a few loose ends from the previous three episodes, and loosens a few more. If there are no major surprises, none the less, he displays his pre-eminent power to imagine the extraordinary and describes it with conviction: a tower 30,000 miles high, the volcanoes of Io, the boiling ice of Europa."
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Publisher's Notes
3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY returns to the future to reveal the answers to the questions that have intrigued us all. What do the monoliths mean? What really happened to Dave Bowman? And what will be the relationship between men and machines, Earth and outer space? Frank Poole was killed by the runaway space pod, then set adrift by Dave Bowman just before Bowman made his hazardous reentry into the Discovery to disconnect the psychotic computer, Hal. Now, a thousand years later, Bowman's frozen body has been restored to life by a civilization beyond the wildest fantasies of the past. He will discover the significance of the monoliths, the fate of his old crewmate, and his own amazing destiny.
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