![]() It is believed he might be the first person allowed to visit there. ![]() ![]() Poole integrates into the society of 3001, but is prompted by a friend to revisit Europa, a cradle of nascent life from which the monolith had banned humanity almost a thousand years earlier. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Moon in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. One millennium later, Poole's Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto. Meanwhile, the monoliths-implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being-continued to watch over their subjects.ģ001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. ![]() After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than "mind," they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. They evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. The novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms - dubbed the First-Born - who created the black monoliths. ![]()
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