3001 the final odyssey Arthur C Clarke Science Fiction Paperback Book 1997

Description: Good condition A Del Rey® Book Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group Copyright © 1997 by Arthur C. Clarke Excerpt from Bloom by Wil McCarthy copyright © 1998 by Wil McCarthy All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy- right Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballan- tine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. http://www.randomhouse.com Grateful acknowledgment is made to Henry Holt & Co., Inc., and The Society of Authors, as the literary representative of the Estate of A. E. Housman, for permission to reprint an excerpt from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. Copyright © 1936 by Barclay Banks Ltd., 1964 by Robert E. Symons. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-97172 ISBN 0-345-42349-6 Manufactured in the United States of America First Hardcover edition: March 1997 First International Mass Market Edition: November 1997 First Domestic Mass Market Edition: March 1998 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ----------- 3 ----------- CONTENTS Prologue: The Firstborn 1. Comet Cowboy 2. Awakening 3. Rehabilitation I. STAR CITY A Room with a View 5. Education 6. Braincap 7. Debriefing 8. Return to Olduvai 9. Skyland 10. Homage to Icarus 11. Here Be Dragons 12. Frustration 13. Stranger in a Strange Time II. GOLIATH 14. A Farewell to Earth 15. Transit of Venus 16. The Captain's Table ----------- 4 ----------- III. THE WORLDS OF GALILEO 17. Ganymede 18. Grand Hotel 19. The Madness of Mankind 20. Apostate 21. Quarantine 22. Venture IV. THE KINGDOM OF SULFUR 23. Falcon 24. Escape 25. Fire in the Deep 26. Tsienville 27. Ice and Vacuum 28. The Little Dawn 9. The Ghosts in the Machine 10. Foamscape 31. Nursery V. TERMINATION 32. A Gentleman of Leisure 33. Contact 34. Judgment 35. Council of War 36. Chamber of Horrors 37. Operation DAMOCLES 38. Preemptive Strike 39. Deicide 40. Midnight: Pico Epilogue Sources and Acknowledgments Valediction ----------- 4 ----------- PROLOGUE: THE FIRSTBORN Call them the Firstborn. Though they were not remotely human, they were flesh and blood, and when they looked out across the deeps of space, they felt awe, and wonder- and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they began to seek for fellowship among the stars. In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thou- sand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night. And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed. The great dinosaurs had long since passed away, their morning promise annihilated by a random hammer-blow from space, when the survey ship entered the Solar Sys- tem after a voyage that had already lasted a thousand years. It swept past the frozen outer planets, paused briefly above the deserts of dying Mars, and presently looked down on Earth.

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