Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008. 2001, a space odyssey (Personal Name)
- 2001, a space odyssey (Novel)
2001, una odisea espacial, 1985 : title page (by Arthur C. Clarke) title page verso (traducción de: Antonio Ribera; English title: 2001: A space odyssey; Original English publication: 1968)
Internet speculative fiction database, 25 March 2016 (2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke; first published 1968)
Wikipedia, March 25, 2016 (2001: A Space Odyssey (novel); 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke; it was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film; Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author; the story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, most notably "The Sentinel" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title "Sentinel of Eternity"); the first part of the novel (in which aliens influence the primitive ancestors of humans) is similar to the plot of an earlier Clarke story, "Encounter in the Dawn;" a sequel to the book, entitled 2010: Odyssey Two, was published in 1982 and adapted as a motion picture in 1984; Clarke went on to write two more sequel novels: 2061: Odyssey Three (1987) and 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997); although the novel and film were developed simultaneously, the novel follows early drafts of the film, from which the final version deviated; these changes were often for practical reasons relating to what could be filmed economically, and a few were due to differences of opinion between Kubrick and Clarke; the most notable differences are a change in the destination planet from Saturn to Jupiter, and the nature of the sequence of events leading to Hal's demise)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author.