3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY returns to the future to reveal the answers to the questions that have intrigued us all. What do the monoliths mean? What really happened to Dave Bowman? And what will be the relationship between men and machines, Earth and outer space?

Frank Poole was killed by the runaway space pod, then set adrift by Dave Bowman just before Bowman made his hazardous reentry into the Discovery to disconnect the psychotic computer, Hal. Now, a thousand years later, Bowman's frozen body has been restored to life by a civilization beyond the wildest fantasies of the past. He will discover the significance of the monoliths, the fate of his old crewmate, and his own amazing destiny.