2001: A Space Odyssey

Based on

• loosely based on "Sentinel of Eternity" (Spring, 1951) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Also known as "The Sentinel"
  • Published in Ten Story Fantasy magazine
  • Collected in Expedition to Earth (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Across the Sea of Stars (1959) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Spectrum 3 (1964) edited by Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest
  • Collected in The Nine Billion Names of God (1967) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Worlds to Come (1967) edited by Damon Knight
  • Novelised as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke
    • Collected in Great Science Fiction Stories (1979)
  • Collected in The Mirror of Infinity (1970) edited by Robert Silverberg
  • Collected in Of Time and Stars (1972) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Science Fiction 3 (1973) edited by Robert Pierce, Murray Suid
  • Collected in Science Fiction (1973) edited by Sylvia Z. Brodkin, Elizabeth J. Pearson
  • Collected in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 (1973) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Past, Present, and Future Perfect (1973) edited by Jack C. Wolfe, Gregory Fitz Gerald
  • Collected in As Tomorrow Becomes Today (1974) edited by Charles W. Sullivan
  • Collected in Looking Back on Tomorrow (1974) edited by John Osborne, David Paskow
  • Collected in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974) edited by Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos, Jane Agorn McGee
  • Collected in Space Odysseys (1974) edited by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Collected in 2001 and Beyond: Science Fiction Stories (1975) edited by H.G. Stenzel
  • Collected in Reflections of the Future (1975) edited by Russell Hill
  • Collected in Science Fiction (1979) edited by Sylvia Z. Brodkin, Elizabeth J. Pearson
  • Collected in The Road to Science Fiction Volume 3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) edited by James E. Gunn
  • Collected in They Came from Outer Space (1980) edited by Jim Wynorski
  • Collected in Science Fiction: Masters of Today (1981) edited by Dr. Arthur Liebman
  • Collected in The Sentinel (1983) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories: 13 (1951) (1985) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
  • Collected in Science Fiction (1988) edited by Patricia S. Warrick, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg
  • Collected in No, But I Saw the Movie (1989) edited by David Wheeler
  • Collected in More Than One Universe: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (1991) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in Reel Future (1994) edited by Forrest J. Ackerman, Jean Stine
  • Collected in The SF Collection (1994) edited by Edel Brosnan
  • Collected in Vintage Science Fiction (1999) edited by Peter Haining
  • Collected in Holt Anthology of Science Fiction (2000)
  • Collected in Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000) edited by Gardner R. Dozois
  • Collected in Exploring the Horizons (2000) edited by Gardner R. Dozois
  • Collected in The Collected Stories (2001) by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Collected in The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2001) edited by Garyn G. Roberts

Film Comments

Posted by GregS on Apr 06, 2005:
This movie is science fiction in the truest sense of the word. Kubrick's use of music really sets the tone for many key sequences. However, it is not as accessible as its successor, 2010.

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