Penguin Galaxy 2001: A Space Odyssey, (Hardcover)

from amerynth

Since I'm not living under a rock, I've seen the movie "2001" A Space Odyssey" a few times. Knowing that the screenplay and the novel were developed by Arthur C. Clarke simultaneously, I thought I knew what to expect. But I was blown away by how much more I enjoyed the novel than the film. Much o...

from aethercowboy

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most influential pieces of science fiction in existence. Both the book and the movie have had their fair share of parody in popular culture, but at the same time, many authors borrowed in part or in whole from Clarke and made his work their own. The story spans...

from EnriqueFreeque

As masterfully made as Stanley Kubrick's version of 2001: A Space Odyssey is, it's too slow and too quiet at times for my taste. It's like an art gallery of outer space paintings is on display, and the camera moves even slower from shot to shot than a person would in a gallery. I like it - and in...

from baswood

See the movie. Read the Book. The frontpiece to the book describes it as based on the screenplay by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. It would seem that the movie was being made in conjunction with the writing of the novel. The movie being released some months before the novel appeared due to ...

from baswood

See the movie. Read the Book. The frontpiece to the book describes it as based on the screenplay by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. It would seem that the movie was being made in conjunction with the writing of the novel. The movie being released some months before the novel appeared due to ...