Clarke, Arthur Charles

The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.

The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.

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.

After two robots help her escape from jail, cosmonaut Nicole des Jardins is reunited with her husband Richard. Joined by their children and other rebels from the Earth sector, they enter New York's labyrinthine underground hoping to find Rama III's secret inner workings.

Sequel to: Rama II. During the 23rd century, three human cosmonauts learn of their destination and their challenge in a rendezvous with a Raman base.

As a team of scientists make their way aboard a dead space capsule headed toward Earth, it suddenly comes alive with a biological life.

The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to intersect with Rama II. Informed of Raman technology, they still are not prepared for what they encounter.

Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the ship Discovery and its computer HAL 9000.

When the Overlords first came to Earth, they brought peace and prosperity with them, but it soon became apparent that their purpose was the elimination of the human race.