3001: The Final Odyssey
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in...
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One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club®Selected by the Literary Guild® and Doubleday Book Club®
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345423498 (0345423496)
ASIN: 345423496
Publish date: March 1998
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Technology,
Space,
Space Opera
Series: Space Odyssey (#4)
A very incredible sci-fi story being happened in the far distant future, a thousand year from now! Humans discovered a lot of new technologies. they built space elevator, ships moving with the near-light speed, we can revive the corpses! Humans don't literally speak orally but rather mentally by u...
This book reads more like a travelogue of the 3000s than a novel. The central narrative of the series is just barely there in the background and whatever closure you're expecting from the series fails to materialize altogether. The milemarkers that do exist in the story seem to serve the overriding ...
I used to think Clarke was brilliant, but this series went downhill to mediocre. I don't remember what happened in the story, because I just didn't care.