title: 3001: The Final Odyssey
author:  Arthur C. Clarke 
description: 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, Clarke uses this book as a vehicle to showcase scientific ideas and breakthroughs at the expense of the story, spending too much time catching up Poole on what he's missed in the last 1000 years while failing to develop fully the current situation and rushing the conclusion. Recommended only to complete the quartet.<BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Title: 2001: A space odissey
  
  
  Title: 2001: A space odissey
  
  
  Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  
  
  Original copyright year: 1968; Epilogue copyright 1982
  
  
  Genre: science fiction
  
  
  Comments: to my knowledge, this is the only available e-text of this book.
  
  
  Source: scanned and OCR-read from a paperback edition with Xerox TextBridge
  Pro 9.0, proofread in MS Word 2000.
  
  
  Date of e-text: August 20, 1999
  
  
  Prepared by: Anada Sucka
  
  
  
  
  
  Anticopyright 1999. All rights reversed.
  
  
  
  
  
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  2001: A Space Odissey
  
  
  
  
  
  Arthur C. Clarke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which
  the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred
  billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
  
  
  
  
  
  Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are
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