3001. The Final Odyssey

by CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

• ISBN13: 9780345438201
• ISBN10: 0345438205
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-10-05
• Publisher: Del Rey

Summary

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 . . .

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Firstborn	p. 3
Star City
Comet Cowboy	p. 9
Awakening	p. 14
Rehabilitation	p. 16
A Room with a View	p. 24
Education	p. 31
Braincap	p. 36
Debriefing	p. 45
Return to Olduvai	p. 53
Skyland	p. 56
Homage to Icarus	p. 67
Here Be Dragons	p. 73
Frustration	p. 78
Stranger in a Strange Time	p. 82
Goliath
A Farewell to Earth	p. 93
Transit of Venus	p. 99
The Captain's Table	p. 108
The Worlds of Galileo
Ganymede	p. 119
Grand Hotel	p. 123
The Madness of Mankind	p. 129
Apostate	p. 137
Quarantine	p. 142
Venture	p. 147
The Kingdom of Sulfur
Falcon	p. 151
Escape	p. 154
Fire in the Deep	p. 158
Tsienville	p. 163
Ice and Vacuum	p. 169
The Little Dawn	p. 175
The Ghosts in the Machine	p. 178
Foamscape	p. 183
Nursery	p. 186
Termination
A Gentleman of Leisure	p. 193
Contact	p. 201
Judgment	p. 203
Council of War	p. 207
Chamber of Horrors	p. 212
Operation DAMOCLES	p. 220
Preemptive Strike	p. 223
Deicide	p. 228
Midnight: Pico	p. 234
Epilogue	p. 237
Sources and Acknowledgments	p. 238
Valediction	p. 257
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