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. Clarke
wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two
collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and
intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has
disproved its "predictions," it's still loaded with exciting and
awe-inspiring science fiction. --Brooks Peck--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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