3001
In the novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke tells us that Frank Poole's boyhood hometown was Flagstaff, Arizona, and that his visits to the Lowell Observatory there had sparked his interest in astronautics.
Poole's lifeless-looking body is discovered by a human spaceship after drifting in space for a millennium. It had been expelled by the gravity of Jupiter into the space beyond the orbit of Neptune, a trip that took that long to make. Given Poole's exposure to the vacuum of outer space beginning in 2001, his body had been flash-frozen and freeze-dried so that it was mostly intact after 1,000 years. Then, the advanced medical technology of 3001 is able to bring him back to life and to revive him back to consciousness.
Poole is taken back to the Earth, where he spends years exploring the advanced society of a thousand years from now, and also where the English language has changed radically. They find a professor of "antique English" who can talk with Poole and understand him. However, they sometimes have conversations like this: She says "You haven't seen anything, yet," but then Poole corrects her with, "No, you ain't seen nuthin', yet."
Finally, Poole spends his time in the final chapters of the novel contending with the trio of alien Black Monoliths that hold dominion over much of the Solar System and also with the "Star Child" that Dave Bowman became and somewhat lost contact with the Human Race.
Poole also marries a woman named Indra Wallace, and they then have two children, Dawn and Martin.
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