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.

Lewis Crane, a man who as a child lost his parents in the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994, is now thirty-seven years old and has developed a theory for earthquake prediction, but there are people who do not want him to succeed and soon the country is divided between those who believe Crane and those who do not.