Clarke, Arthur C

Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths, must once again confront Dave Bowman, a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race.

In the year 2110, an amateur astronomer discovers a chunk of rock hurtling through space that could mean the end of Earth's civilization.

Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the spaceship Discovery and its computer HAL 9000.

Dr. Jeffrey Horton becomes caught up in a web of deceit and politics when he invents a device that is capable of rendering guns and bombs virtually harmless.

The entire structure of human society is shaken to its roots when a brilliant industrialist creates a new technology that leads to the complete abolition of human privacy forever, and also allows people to look backwards in time.

After teenage Sri Lankan Ranjit Subramanian, a math prodigy, reconstructs and publishes the famous last theorem of Pierre de Fermat, the powerful aliens called the Grand Galactics respond to the flash of nuclear explosions and decide to exterminate humanity just as Earth's superpowers develop a new, nonlethal, way of promoting global peace.

Bisesa Dutt tries to discover why she was returned to Earth in the year 2037 by the Firstborn amidst the turmoil of an approaching apocalypse.

Chaos ensues when the Firstborn, alien beings unknown to humankind, decide to scramble time, carving Earth into specific segments of terrain, each set in a different point in history from prehistory to 2037. Includes a CD-ROM with special features including an author interview and two additional novels.