Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science
fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW
YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably
tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the
mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien
race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of
the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.