About this title: In the book "2001" astronaut Frank Poole was cryogenically frozen after Hal the computer killed him. In "3001" he's resurrected in a society far more advanced than the one he departed--one in which humankind is in serious danger.
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Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 28-Jan-98
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Very Good. A few spine creases & shelf wear on cover. Moderately aged pages, no markings. From Library Journal: In this fourth and final book in a 30-year publishing odyssey (following 2001, 2010, and 2061), 2001 astronaut Frank Poole, presumed dead and adrift in deep space near Jupiter, is recovered alive in the year 3001. Intent on saving humanity, he returns to Jupiter's satellite, Europa, to contact partner Dave Bowman, whose mind has become absorbed by a third monolith. Unfortunately, ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book appears near new. SYNOPSIS: One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bpowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the superocmputer 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... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Good. 0345423496 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Wear to edges of soft cover. Page taning from age. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good clean paperback with some light overall wear. light edge rubbing and a couple of very tiny chips at top and bottom of spine. pages clean and unmarked. price sticker on back cover. read more
Description: Very good condition, paperback. Slight wear along cover edges, corners, and spine, pages lightly tanned. Clean and tight. 0345423496. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. : Del Rey, 1998, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780345423498ISBN:0345423496
Description: Very Good. 0.80 x 6.89 x 4.21. Paperback. 0.80 x 6.89 x 4.21. Nice clean book in very good condition, light shelfwear. 3001: The Final Odyssey The conclusion of the series that began with '2001: A Space Odyssey' explains what really happened to Dave Bowman, who reentered the Discovery to incapacitate the psychotic computer Hal, and speculates about the future relationship between human and machine. read more
"3001: The Final Odyssey is a brilliant conclusion to the Odyssey series. We learn more about the aliens who started human evolution with the monoliths (but we don't learn enough!), who, before becoming non-corporeal denizens of frozen light and the architecture of space-time, travelled the universe searching for the rare wonder of evolved intelligence, giving hand (and a Monolith) here and there where necessary. Then we burst into action with the retrieval from the Kuiper Belt of Frank Poole, killed by HAL these many centuries ago. It describes in vivid and interesting detail the culture shock from 1000 years of social and human evolution. It is revealed that the Monolith has been in contact with its parents and a reply on what to do with these pesky Earthmen/Europans is expected at any moment, and the money is on their annihilation. Great action, a well-imagined future, and suspense. Excellent science fiction."
"Has a good section on the psychopathology of religion. A good section on inertia free drives. All in all, lots of looking forward, but the plot was a little weak."
"It took me 10 years to get around to it, but I finally read the fourth book of the quadrilogy. It was easily my favorite since the first, "2001." Amazing imagination."
"This is the 4th book in Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey collection. I found it a few weeks after I had read 2001: A Space Odyssey in my uncle's book collection. The funny thing was I had picked it up probably a hundred times when I lived there but never read it cause it was space related. After loving 2001 I eagerly started reading it. Even though it is the 4th and I have not read 2015 and 2065 I was not lost in the story as this takes place 1000 years after the first book. In a way it is like you are seeing things through Frank Poole's eyes after his body is found floating in space and reanimated from his cryogenic sleep. Lots of technological leaps have been made and it is neat to see how Clarke imagined human society would be. Of course the monoliths and the entity that used to be Dave Bowman have not been idle in this time between and we get to see the continuance of their story when Poole goes to one of Saturn's moons to visit the human base there. After reading this book I am even more excited to read the other two."
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