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3001: The Final Odyssey (excerpt)

Arthur C. Clarke

First published March 1997
Type Short Fiction
Series A Space Odyssey

Synopsis

Astronaut Frank Poole, who had been lost during an EVA from the spacecraft Discovery One, bound for Jupiter in 2001, awakens and finds that it is now 3001 and he is hospitalized in one of four space elevators which now rise from the Earth's surface.

Notes

Chapters 2 through 9 of the full novel.

Publications (1)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1997 Playboy, March 1997 Playboy MAGAZINE 66