3001 The Final Odyssey A Novel

by CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

• ISBN13: 9780345423498
• ISBN10: 0345423496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-28
• 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. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club Selected by the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club

Author Biography

Arthur C. Clarke is considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke--both fiction and nonfiction--have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Firstborn	1	(6)
I. STAR CITY
Comet Cowboy	7	(5)
Awakening	12	(3)
Rehabilitation	15	(9)
A Room with a View	24	(7)
Education	31	(6)
Braincap	37	(10)
Debriefing	47	(9)
Return to Olduvai	56	(3)
Skyland	59	(12)
Homage to Icarus	71	(7)
Here Be Dragons	78	(5)
Frustration	83	(4)
Stranger in a Strange Time	87	(10)
II. GOLIATH
A Farewell to Earth	97	(6)
Transit of Venus	103	(9)
The Captain's Table	112	(12)
III. THE WORLDS OF GALILEO
Ganymede	124	(5)
Grand Hotel	129	(6)
The Madness of Mankind	135	(9)
Apostate	144	(5)
Quarantine	149	(6)
Venture	155	(4)
IV. THE KINGDOM OF SULFUR
Falcon	159	(3)
Escape	162	(4)
Fire in the Deep	166	(5)
Tsienville	171	(6)
Ice and Vacuum	177	(6)
The Little Dawn	183	(3)
The Ghosts in the Machine	186	(5)
Foamscape	191	(4)
Nursery	195	(6)
V. TERMINATION
A Gentleman of Leisure	201	(9)
Contact	210	(2)
Judgment	212	(4)
Council of War	216	(5)
Chamber of Horrors	221	(8)
Operation DAMOCLES	229	(3)
Preemptive Strike	232	(5)
Deicide	237	(6)
Midnight: Pico	243	(4)
Epilogue	247	(1)
Sources and Acknowledgments	248	(20)
Valediction	268