3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (English) Paperback Book

Description: 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke When Frank Poole, whose body has been frozen in deep space for 1000 years, is resurrected, his second life brings him enlightening culture shocks a-plenty, but his Odyssey eventually leads him to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. The final sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When Frank Poole, whose body has been frozen in deep space for 1000 years, is resurrected, his second life brings him enlightening culture shocks a-plenty, but his Odyssey eventually leads him to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. The final sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Notes The conclusion to the Arthur C. Clarke classic science fiction sequence. In the year 3001, the Monolith awakes for only the second time in four million years. And so the limitless power of an alien technology will decide the part that humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy. Voyager. Author Biography Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhoods End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He died in 2008 at his home in Sri Lanka. Kirkus US Review Fourth in Clarkes Odyssey series (2061: Odyssey Three, 1987, etc.). Here, at the beginning of the fourth millennium, the vacuum-frozen body of astronaut Frank Poole (murdered by poor mad computer HAL in the original 2001) is recovered and revived. Frank awakens to find hes a celebrity in an age of peace and plenty, with space elevators, inertia-less space drives, and miraculous teaching devices. Frank visits Jupiter (transformed into the mini-sun Lucifer in 2010: Odyssey Two) and ponders its ice-moon Europa, where a giant monolith is attempting to develop intelligence among the native lifeforms. And he meets that strange entity composed of Star Child Dave Bowman fused with a copy of now-sane HAL. Dubbed Halman by Frank, the entity warns of bad news arriving from the monoliths guiding intelligences 450 light-years distant: Theyve decided to destroy humankind. Europas monolith, though, is just a supercomputer, not intelligent or self-aware, so Franks associates decide to use Halman as a Trojan horse to infect the monolith with an irresistible computer virus - whereupon all the monoliths vanish. Clarke, while never uninteresting, long ago abandoned drama; here, he simply reports, with the dispassionate precision of HAL before he went bananas. (Kirkus Reviews) Details ISBN0586066241 Author Arthur C. Clarke Pages 288 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Year 1997 ISBN-10 0586066241 ISBN-13 9780586066249 Format Paperback Imprint Voyager Subtitle The Final Odyssey Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Birth 1917 Death 2008 Media Book Series Space Odyssey Edition New edition Language English Series Number 04 UK Release Date 1997-11-01 Publication Date 1997-11-01 AU Release Date 1997-10-28 NZ Release Date 1997-05-27 Alternative 9780007378371 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160754728;

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