3001: The Final Odyssey | Characters
The main character in the novel is Lieutenant Commander Frank Poole. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole is apparently killed as the computer, HAL, takes control of the spaceship Discovery. Dave Bowman seals Poole's body in a small space pod called a "hibernaculum," and sends it off into the unknown. In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Poole's pod is detected near the fringes of the solar system and is recovered by a "space tug," pulled from its duty of wrapping ice-laden comets to be sent toward Mars or Venus. Poole is brought back to life by means unspecified, and is slowly oriented to...
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