To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.

Stella Nova is one of the virus children , a generation of genetically enhanced babies born to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus. The children represent the next evolutionary leap and a new species of human, Homo sapiens novus, but this is officially denied and the children are locked up.

When Frank Poole, whose body has been frozen in deep space for 1000 years, is resurrected, his second life brings him enlightening culture shocks a-plenty, but his Odyssey eventually leads him to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. The final sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

2061 is the year Halley's Comet makes its next pilgrimage to the inner Solar System - and the year centenarian Heywood Floyd encounters once again the alien Monoliths. Near Jupiter, the transfigured forms of Dave Bowman and HAL the computer are Heywood's only chance of survival - if they too are not now alien beings.

A fast-paced near-future thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of TIMESCAPE and THE MARTIAN RACE.

A stunning new companion series to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY from the world's most important living SF writer and his acknowledged heir.