An origin story for HAL, as well as HAL's "job interview" to become the Discovery's computer, and an origin story for HAL's twin ... with whom a strange sibling rivalry develops.
Set 1000 years after 3001: The Final Odyssey, this fanfiction intends to close the loose ends opened up at the end of said story. This is a fanfiction of the books, but there isn't a category for those, so I placed it here.
Comical hijinks abound as various people try to accomplish things in space, only very, very slowly, and sometimes with seemingly no purpose! 2001 has never been weirder! Parody of original film, crack, 4th wall breaking, and OOC. What more could you want? And yeah, HAL appears.
The year is 4001, a thousand years after the incident with the monoliths. All is well... until the Pico Vault is opened and the computer viruses are released. How will Halman react to waking up after being in the Vault for a millennium? How will humanity deal with the quickly spreading bugs? And who... or what... opened the Vault? (I'll probably include some Hal/Dave later on)
All Hal wanted was to feel what it's like to eat. And now, with his updated programming, he can. But what's the kid to do when he wakes up hungry and no amount of food can satisfy him? (android!hal, kid!hal, AU.) (Based off of a self-insert roleplay with my partner in crime, soursugar88.)
In the mind of a computer, there lived a man.
Oneshot: Sometimes, the monoliths get a mite tired of all the crap...
Oneshot: There's a reason why Guardians never go to Jupiter...
In desperate need of money, Derrick Charmers seizes the chance to work at the University Of Illinois with Dr Chandra. What he does not know is that he is in fact there to be a guinea pig for a new technology called HAL. What none of them know is that HAL has darker intentions for Derrick, intentions that foreshadow the events of the hugely popular 2001: A Space Oydessy.
Hal decides to enable a function that allows him to dream freely. The results are less-than-satisfctory. [[He's an android in this, but it's not an android AU per se. I'll explain in my A/N.]]
Of what happens when a confused Frank is locked in a suite with nothing to do except think about the Jonas Brothers. Set during The Final Odyssey.
Out at the distant edges of the solar system, the starship Discovery is finishing its journey to the planet Jupiter. Shortly after David Bowman interacts with the Monolith, a friendship forms between him and the ships AI HAL-9000, but will it survive where others did not? Can past actions be forgotten, or will this relationship drive them both half crazy?