The novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is based on the final version of the script for the 1968 motion picture, but, even so, in some regards they differ due to late changes made by director Stanley Kubrick to that picture after the novel had largely been completed. The 1984 motion picture 2010: Odyssey Two was based on the completed novel, so in its case the novel is in fairly close agreement with the screenplay. At the time of writing, the subsequent novels have yet to be filmed.

Also included here is Arthur C Clarke's book The Lost Worlds of 2001, which is (in part) an account of the origins of the 1968 motion picture: dealing with the original 1948 short story, The Sentinel, and of how that 1948 text evolved into, ultimately, the 1968 screenplay (including an early draft of that screenplay which had only the most superficial resemblance to what finally appeared on the screen).


These are e-books in the .epub format (capable of being read by any Windows or Linux e-book reader, including the free Calibre E-book viewer). The original format of the files uploaded was .epub

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