TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Moon in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto. Some of its notable features include the BrainCap, a brain–computer interface technology genetically engineered dinosaur servants and four gigantic space elevators located evenly around the Equator. Poole is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001. One millennium later, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath, and revived. Meanwhile, the monoliths-implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being-continued to watch over their subjects.ģ001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than "mind," they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. They evolved from " primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. This novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms - dubbed the First-Born - who created the black monoliths. In the Fourth Millennium, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath, and revived. It centers around the revival of Frank Poole in the year 3001 and his attempts to save humanity from disaster and to readjust to his new futuristic lifestyle, considering the fact that man has made many technological advances.ģ001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey is the last installment of the Space Odyssey book series.
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