It began four million years ago with a gleaming black monolith—an inexplicable apparition that ignited the spark of human consciousness, transforming ape into man.<br /><br />It continued at the dawn of the twenty-first century when an identical black monolith was excavated on the moon—beginning the adventures of Dave Bowman, his deputy, Frank Poole, and the supercomputer HAL.<br /><br />Only Dave Bowman would survive to encounter a third, and far more massive, monolith on Jupiter’s moon Europa—and be forever transformed into the star child.<br /><br />It is the world of <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. And now, the odyssey enters its perilous, ultimate stage. In <i>3001</i>, the human race, incredibly, has survived, fearful of the trio of monoliths that dominate the stolar system. Then a single hope flickers. The body of Frank Poole, believed dead for a thousand years, is recovered from the frozen reaches of the galaxy. Poole is restored to conscious life, and readied to resume the voyag
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