We Went Into Space To An Unknown Object But I Did Not Know That Only I Would Survive

What the story is about

Based on 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the distant past, a mysterious black slab influences Moon-Watcher and his fellow apes, nudging them toward new ways of surviving and changing. Millions of years later, Dr. Heywood Floyd investigates an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, while David Bowman and the crew of Discovery undertake a journey toward Saturn.