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Having read the other books in this series, and seen the movies, I thought I would read the last one to conclude the story.

1,000 years after the original Discovery mission, Frank Poole's body is recovered out around Neptune. Future technology allows him to be revived and Clarke does some imagining of life and technology in the year 3001 in his classic style. This part of the book I found pretty good. The only things he got wrong were the developments in computer technology. We are getting close to what he imagined 980 years ahead of schedule:) Considering the book was written in 1997 it's still not that bad.

My only real problem with the book was the ending. It mimics the ending of a certain movie that also received a lot of criticism. I'm not going to say which movie as that would be a huge spoiler. You will have to read it for yourself.

If you have read the original 3 books then read this one, don't try and read it as a stand alone.