Lost World of 2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Book Overview

The ultimate trip began with a story called THE SENTINAL, by Arthur C. Clarke. It took flight when stanley Kubrick asked Clarke to write a novel of space exploration unpon which the acclaimed director... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451078659
• ISBN13: 9780451078650
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Roc
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Essential if you loved 2001

I highly reccommend this book to you if you enjoyed the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (or the movie, for that matter, but read the book version of it before you read this.) It consists of chapters that were originally written for the book, but were not used. Also included are occasional musings by Clarke on the making of the book, and behind-the-scenes glimpses at the making of the movie. He kept a journal during the entire 4-year process of the making of the works, and some of them are excerpted here. It's interesting to see some of the ideas that were thought up, but abandoned. For instance, what became HAL was originally a walking robot; the initial "Dawn of Man" scenes involved an actual alien, and there are numerous alternate endings (all of them every bit as ornate as the one we're all familar with.) This is sort of the literary equivalent of the movie industry's "The Making of Kubrick's 2001" (which I also reccommend.) A highly worthy buy for the fan.

Much better than the "modified for the movie" 2001.

This is the original version of what most people know as "2001: A space odyssey". The differences are small, but they help make sense out of the cropped version of the story sci fi fans are famillier with.