num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
titlecomplete: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
characters: Dave Bowman, HAL 9000, Frank Poole, Heywood Floyd
genres: Classics, Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 305730
places: Outer Space
series: Space Odyssey
publisher: Arrow Books