When gene hacker Alex Sharkey helps a super-smart girl turn a genetically-engineered doll into a new species he accidentally gives history a dangerous shove

'The span here is mind-boggling, cosmos-spanning concepts, a breathtaking journey' Good Book Guide

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.

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.

The time is early in the 23rd century. Mars has been terraformed and is now politically independent. Meanwhile on Earth, there is terminal overpopulation, reduced resources and the bitter nationalism that these problems create. The concluding volume in the Mars trilogy.

The second volume in the Mars trilogy, the survivors of the First Hundred - Hiroko, Nadia, Maya and Simon among them - know that technology alone is not enough. Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world - but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe.