The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community
Un misterioso monolito, un'astronave diretta verso Saturno e un calcolatore di inconcepibile capacità... A questo soggetto s'ispirò Stanley Kubrick per uno dei più spettacolari film del secolo.
Ruth is beautiful, intelligent and privileged, but she can never be satisfied - there is a moral vacuum where her heart should be. She envies her cousin Elisabeth and this obsession leads her inexorably to tragedy. By the author of "Damage".