The release date for the English version of '3001: The Final Odyssey' by
Arthur C. Clarke is Oct 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This brilliant finale to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey trilogy unlocks the secrets of the monoliths—"there are marvels aplenty" (The New York Times).
David Bowman and Frank Poole were crew members on a trip to Jupiter in 2001 when the supercomputer HAL went on a revolt, sending them into the cold, empty space. Bowman's peculiar metamorphosis into a Star Child is chronicled in the books 2061 and 2010. However, Frank Poole is now resurrected a millennium after his death and placed in a world that is significantly more technologically sophisticated than the one he left behind.
Poole finds a world with genetically modified dinosaur servants, enormous space elevators constructed around the equator, and human brains interacting directly with computers. Additionally, he unearths a potential danger to mankind concealed inside the mysterious monoliths. Poole must team up with Bowman and HAL to combat it, since they have now united into a single physical mind and are the only entities capable of stopping the enigmatic makers of the monoliths.
"3001 is a book of wisdom as well, sharp and thought-provoking, not just a page-turner, plugged in to the great icons of HAL and the monoliths." – Scientist in New