3001: The Final Odyssey (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
by Arthur Charles Clarke
Category: Fiction

In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable, on board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor from its deadly collision course -- a mission whose success may require the ultimate sacrifice.