2001 (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Future, Space flight or travel, Technology, Computers, Moon or moons, Prehistoric humans, Astronauts, Saturn
- Locales: Africa, Moon, Saturn
The Work
Originally titled Journey Beyond the Stars, 2001: A Space Odyssey evolved over several years of close collaboration between director Stanley Kubrick and the English science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The screenplay was based on Clarke’s story “The Sentinel,” in which astronauts on a roving mission to extract mineral samples from the mountains of the moon discover a pyramidal structure left by space travelers eons before, presumably as a kind of cosmic signpost for those terrestrial creatures who might evolve sufficiently to be able to journey...
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