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. . .
BOOK REVIEWS
Media Reviews
USA Today
Science-fiction master Arthur C. Clarke has taken generations of readers to the far and lonely reaches of the universe.
Business Week 3001 The Final Odyssey has an eerie and compelling plausibility.
Rocky Mountain News
A satisfying conclusion to the series . . . It is tightly constructed and stands well in its own right.
The New York Times Book Review
Marvels aplenty.
San Diego Union-Tribune 3001 is interesting and enjoyable, worth the price and worth the wait.
Newsweek
A fascinating picture of our future cities atop needlelike towers that extend into space, the colonization of Venus, the pacification of humanity, and the abolition of religion.
Roger Ebert
Clarke's agile imagination stretches our notions of how things can be, should be, and might be in man's unfolding destiny. The novel is a torrent of challenging ideas.
Buzz Aldrin
From the moment I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. 3001 The Final Odyssey is a tour de force that finally answers the questions that sparked the imaginations of an entire generation.
Larry Collins
Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 The Final Odyssey is witty, provocative and scary, a triumphant reaffirmation of his position as the dean of science fiction writing.
Recent Reader Reviews
Rated of 5
by rob
well i thought it was good book to read. i only read 2061 and 3001 but i saw the movies 2001 and 2010. thats it from me.
Rated of 5
by Michael Hickerson
File under: beating a dead horse.
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