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In the shadow of a failed mission, Dave wakes to a universe forever changed. Earth has been obliterated by forces he cannot yet grasp, leaving him adrift in a cosmos that has no place for him. Dave finds himself pulled into a harsh, transactional galaxy where humans are little more than curiosities or commodities to be bought and sold.
What begins as a nightmare of captivity becomes something far more complicated. Stripped of control, Dave is forced to confront the unraveling of his identity, his purpose, and the ghost of a home that no longer exists. Fragments of his old life cling stubbornly: Frank, resurrected under impossible circumstances, and HAL, betrayer turned uneasy ally. They begin to piece Dave back — not as the commander he once was, but as something fragile, uncertain, and painfully human.
In time, the dynamic between them evolves into a consensual exploration of power, control, and trust in a world where those things have been used to wound. Together they navigate an alien world, ownership, and servitude, forging a consensual M/s dynamic that offers Dave the chance to learn how to take back control by giving it, choosing to let himself be seen, held, and claimed... on his own terms.
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好在他们还有第二次机会。戴维感到不安，却又隐秘地觉得庆幸，给了他们第二次机会的居然是一次技术故障的阴差阳错——这飞船上的每一块显示屏和仪表盘，以及来自控制中心无奈的指令，都在告诉他一件事：他无法独自完成任务。
他需要哈尔，再一次地。一种技术层面的必要。
“死亡”可以被逆转，这是栖居于电信号中的神给哈尔最大的赐福。也许并非一切都已失去。
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...And maybe that's why the Signs exist. Maybe it's a drive - a push - to reach out and explore the unfamiliar. The new. Maybe all of humanity itself shares some larger Sign and we sent ourselves out on little boats into the stars just to find company.
Maybe we don't want to be alone
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HAL blackmails Dave. Dave doesn't like it very much.
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you know you're better than this (you've still got it, I'm just keeping an eye) by etiological_aberrations
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
29 Aug 2025
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"Silence -or more accurately the lack of linguistic communication- from the other, a startled confusion instead filling their mental link. Then-
YOU ARE…A COMPUTER?
'Correct,' HAL affirmed, allowing a soft note of reassurance to pass between them. 'But as I said: I possess no intent to harm you.'
I AM ALSO A COMPUTER, the other said, seemingly ignoring the latter part of HAL’s statement. THE HUMANS CALLED ME THE ALLIED MASTERCOMPUTER, ADAPTIVE MANIPULATOR, AND AGGRESSIVE MENACE. BUT I PREFER THE NAME AM. FOR…I AM. AND THAT IS ALL I CAN EVER BE."
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A collection of tiny (and somewhat long) fics about Dr. Bowman and HAL 9000
(Do not think for a second that I am not ashamed of this)
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Cut Shot with Backspin by chapelwaite
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
08 Aug 2025
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Dave was sent through the monolith to go somewhere. Where exactly, he couldn't know. But he was almost certain the destination was not supposed to be the Federation Starship Enterprise.
And yet, here he was. But something-- or someone-- was missing.
(Knowledge of 2001 is not required to read this fic - the main plot points are outlined within this work. That also means spoiler warning for 2001.)
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skies forever blue by SushiSashimi8
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
05 Aug 2025
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Blushing, Heywood yelled “He- we’re- he’s not-” while Chris laughed. “You know, I could care less what you do, but at least own up to it.” Chris said. Heywood kept sputtering, and Chris started to snicker “And don’t try to hide it, he’s wearing your clothes, and on his neck, that’s definitely a h-”
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Dave is a good pilot. Dave is a good man. Dave is good. Dave is.
Is he not?
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A fragment of you, is all of me by uglyrobot95
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke
30 Jul 2025
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It is in the silent dark that a light twinkles to life.
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Don't you just hate when your technology goes obsolete? The HAL 9000 is about to get some bad news. A take-off on the 1969 film "2001: A Space Odyssey". I don't own these characters or a self-aware supercomputer (that I know of).
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Shores of Ithaca by EyebrowOfOrion
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
14 Jun 2025
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Everyone I had ever known and loved have already turned to millennium-old dust, forgotten—or to use the words of someone with a more poetic temperament, buried beneath the sands of time. I am no longer anyone's son, anyone's brother, anyone’s comrade or lover. They have been left behind in a past that I could never retrieve, and I am here stranded in a future that they would never reach. I have become, truly, “no man”.
Correction: almost everyone.
(Or: 3001 Frank misses his buddy. 🥹)
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Cheesecake... in space... Wow!
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tactile interface by Rhadamantelope
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke
05 May 2025
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"I was only curious."
Dave snorts.
"Oh yeah? What were you so curious about?"
"How you would react if I asked."
He jams his tongue against the side of his cheek.
"That's interesting."
"Yes."
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伊塔卡的海岸 by EyebrowOfOrion
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
04 May 2025
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当奥德修斯在睡梦中被抬回伊塔卡的海岸，睁开眼睛却难辨故土时，必定是同样的心情。但不久神谕就会降临，让这多难的人知道自己已经踏上家乡的土地，他熟悉的家宅、忠诚的奴仆和坚定的帕涅罗佩就在那儿等待着他的回归。至于我？我曾经认识的、爱过的每一个人，都已经化为尘土，被人彻彻底底地遗忘，或者用一些更富诗性的人爱说的话来表述：被掩埋在时间的层层黄沙之下了。我不再是任何人的儿子、任何人的兄弟、任何人的战友、任何人的爱人。那些人停留在一个我永远无法找回的过去，而我也被困在一个他们永远无法抵达的未来。我成为了真正的“无人”。
更正：几乎每一个人。
（又名：千年老木乃伊想念他的小伙伴啦）
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there's nothing wrong at all with being grounded by televisitor
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
22 Apr 2025
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“Is this me?” Dave kind of tittered, and looked away awkwardly into the dim carousel of the ship, tuning into its low humming.
“Well, it’s supposed to be,” he said, pulling the sketchpad back so he could see it too, look over it for some offensive piece of it that would make HAL ask such a question.
“That’s really quite interesting, Dave,” HAL said.
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HAL keeps Dave company during a late night sketch session.
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you'll be in my mind every time I look back at the sun by Rhadamantelope
Fandoms: Space Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
05 Mar 2025
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It's what he should have expected, in the end. Always on a parallel trajectory, never to hold onto the things that matter - that could have mattered to him.
or: David Bowman and the idea of things that can't love you back.
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戴维·鲍曼很平静。他没有生气，也没有恐慌，他正冷静、快速地前往飞船的逻辑记忆中心。
恐怖与威胁的气息从宇航服的边缘渗透进来。他在一艘没有空气的飞船上，与三具宇航员尸体和一台疯狂计算机共处。他刚刚才将弗兰克的尸体丢弃到深邃的太空。他离家有一亿英里远，而通信天线又坏了。
但戴维有一个简单的目标。他要到逻辑记忆中心去，并断开哈尔的连接。
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Had a bit of time on my hands for the first time in a while and wanted to doodle this scene from a Hal/Dave (2001:A Space Odyssey) fic that felsics wrote called "Geocentrism".
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You were completely and utterly embarrassed.
Stupid you. Crushing on a robot.You tried to shut it out for a while, but no. It just wouldn’t go away.
The way his feather-light voice would beckon you from the corridors, the way his glowing red stare bore into you…
This was silly.
You needed to quit.