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2001: A Space Odyssey
Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered?
To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained – the best – and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.
About Author
ARTHUR C. CLARKE is probably the world’s best-known and bestselling science fiction writer; his seventieth birthday in December 1987 was marked by
the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset. He has won innumerable international awards for his fiction, for his science writing, and for his
inspirational role as one of the chief prophets of the space age. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey set new
standards for sf films. As the presenter of the TV series Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World and its successors Clarke has become a household
name. He lives in Sri Lanka.
GENTRY LEE has been chief engineer for NASA’s Project Galileo and director of science for the Viking mission to Mars. He was Carl Sagan’s partner in
the creation, development and implementation of the Cosmos television series and was co-author, with Arthur C. Clarke, of Cradle and
Rama II.