3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated front panel+spine of dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-272pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a prologue, Pts I-V comprising 13,3 6,9,and 9 chapters respectively and an Epilogue,sources and acknowledgements,author's valediction; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,title separator page and individual Pts separator pages,last page unpaginated and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.
The final and 4th episode in the 2001 Space Odyssey series - see my book ID's for UK,HB 1st edns: rja27647 (2001: a space Odyssey),rja 747 + rja904 (2010: Odyssey Two) and rja608316 (2061: Odyssey Three). Want more Arthur C CLARKE titles? For similar and other titles,please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2 and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogues. In the year that the computer Hal was created,Arthur C. Clarke brings the Odyssey to the conclusion millions have been awaiting.Now the final episode in the greatest story ever written of humanity's destiny in space. With '3001: The Final Odyssey' we experience once more the uncanny influence of the Monoliths and the limitless power of an alien technology. Frank Poole was last seen alive in the vicinity of the United States Spaceship Discovery en route to Jupiter's moons.The year was A.D. 2001 and the Series 9000 HAL computer on board Discovery had malfunctioned.Frank was Hal's first victim. Grappling frantically with the broken air hose of his spacesuit,Frank died in the blackness and vacuum of space. In A.D. 3001 his perfectly preserved body is retrieved by Captain Dimitri Chandler of the spacetug Goliath; medical and electro-optical technologies restore his life and then enhance it with a Braincap.Thus Frank becomes a telepathic,machine-assisted inhabitant of the first years of the fourth millennium,with a lot to learn. The alien Monoliths have been silent since the eruption of Jupiter into a sun in A.D. 2010.Their last message was a warning: ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA.ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.But Frank Poole is an exception to the alien's interdict.Or so he hopes.Frank has unfinished business on Europa.And perhaps Dave Bowman,his long-lost colleague from the Discovery,is there,a thousand years older but not dead.And alien.Forever exploring the vastness of space and the mystery of life, Arthur Clarke has himself become the Odysseus of the space age.His imagination is the most celebrated in the world,yet he has written,'The universe is such a strange and wonderful place that reality will always out-reach the wildest imagination.' Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct and possibly,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **