The entire mission is under the direction of a human-like computer, HAL 9000. The astronauts in hibernation are expected to be brought to life when the spacecraft reaches the vicinity of Saturn. The active crew of this spaceship consists of two men, Frank Poole and David Bowman, as well as three others who are in hibernation. Then the monolith sends a powerful signal aimed at Saturn (changed to Jupiter in the movie).ĭiscovery, a manned spacecraft, is sent on a mission to Saturn to see if the signal to Saturn would reveal something about the monolith. The geologists learn that the monolith is three million years old.
This is a solid rectangular object with 1:4:9 dimensions, the squares of the first three integers. Floyd is sent to the moon to investigate a smooth black monolith found there. These man-apes discover a smooth black monolith but they have no interaction with this monolith. The novel begins with man-apes fighting with each other. There are differences between the movie and the novel, but I would consider them to be minor. The movie has four distinct parts, whereas the novel has a discrete beginning, a middle and an ending, all blending into a single story. For 2001, the novel and screenplay were produced at the same time, therefore “odd.” The way movies are made, normally the novel is written first and separately, then a screenplay is developed from the novel. Clarke writes that “toward the end novel and screenplay were being written simultaneously, with feedback in both directions”. The screenplay for the movie was a cooperative effort between Clarke and Kubrick, and when the movie was in production, the two of them were changing the screenplay as the film was being shot.
In the beginning section of this book, Clarke writes that in 1964 Stanley Kubrick, a movie producer and director, asked Clarke for an idea to make the “proverbial good science fiction movie”.
This book is odd because of the way it was written. Clarke wrote in the edition I reviewed that 2001 “has been called one of the most influential movies ever made and almost invariably turns up in the list of the all-time top ten”. And you have to watch the movie which I consider to be one of the best ten movies ever made. If you are a member of the National Space Society and have never read a science fiction book, this is the one science fiction book you should read. “The Greatest Science Fiction Novel of All Times and Our Time – ‘Dazzling’ - Time.” This statement appears on the cover of 2001.
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