The Space Odyssey Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—evolutionary fantasy
- Time of Work: About 3,000,000 and 2001-3001
- Setting: The solar system and remote space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Computers, Artificial intelligence, Evolution, Astronauts, Saturn, Aliens, space
- Locales: Space, Solar system
The Plot
This series began in a unique collaboration between author Arthur C. Clarke and film director Stanley Kubrick. Between 1965 and 1968, they created a screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Simultaneously with the filming, Clarke wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. The novel exhibits striking inter-dependence with the film, which is notably nonverbal— the first forty minutes and last thirty minutes have no dialogue.
As the novel opens, a point of light orbits the Earth, unnoticed by protohominids living on the brink of extinction....
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