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 | | In it, the space mission of Frank Poole and Dave Bowman is subverted by their supposed servant, the computer Hal, which is determined to follow its program to the end, no matter what the consequences. |
 | | It is not only that you have to imagine Poole, last seen in ''2001'' spinning uncontrollably away in space, recovered and restored to life after his millennium of drift. |
 | | The world that Frank Poole returns to after being revived from his long frozen condition (no imaginary medical details are provided as to how this feat was accomplished) is, needless to say, a technological marvel, though it is less different from that of the previous millennium than the previous millennium was from our millennium. |
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