"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."\ *Carl Sagan\ Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft *to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong . . . and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.\ Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race...
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman.