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Arthur C. ClarkeThe Lost Worlds of 2001Sidgwick & Jackson, Paperback, 1972.12mo. 240 pp.First published in 1972.ContentsForeword1. View of the Year 20002. Son of Dr. Strangelove3. The Sentinel4. Christmas, Shepperton5. Monoliths and Manuscripts6. The Dawn of Man7. First Encounter8. Moon-Watcher9. Gift from the Stars10. Farewell to Earth11. The Birth of HAL12. Man and Robot13. From the Ocean, from the stars14. With Open Hands15. Universe16. Ancestral Voices17. The Question18. Midnight, Washington19. Mission to Jupiter20. Flight Pay21. Discovery22. The Long Sleep23. Runaway24. First Man to Jupiter25. The Smell of Death26. Alone27. Joveday28. Jupiter V29. Final Orbit30. The Impossible Stars31. Something Is Seriously Wrong with Space32. Ball Game33. Last Message34. The Worlds of the Star Gate35. Reunion36. Abyss37. Cosmopolis38. Scrutiny39. Skyrock40. Oceana41. Into the Night Land42. Second LessonEpilogue==========================================If you have the same defect of character as I do, namely if Arthur Clarke's classic science fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is among the greatest experiences of your young adulthood, you should certainly read this book. First published in 1972, that is when the events were still fresh, The Lost Worlds of 2001 is a detailed account of the strange working relationship between Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick during the 1960s which produced a novel and a movie that have become absolute classics; curiously enough, both were born during the same time and the adaptation for the screen was actually released first, whereas the novel appeared a little later on the same year. I daresay this book might be quite boring for those movie fans who don't care for Arthur Clarke or his novel, but it sure makes an engrossing read for those who do the opposite. It contains lots of compelling and illuminating details about the origins of at least one masterpiece.Ranting and rambling: http://www.librarything.com/work/1362...

The book starts with the descriptions of the movie by Stanley Kubrick "Odyssey 2001" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/?...). the writer says how he with S. Kubrick arranged the film script, found the cast and suggested decorations for the art studio to make. It lasted nearly 4 years to film the movie. then comes the story which the author didn't include into 2001 A Space Odyssey because 2001 novel was written only for the movie. here the ship Discovery goes to Jupiter and finds there not a big black monolith but a pyramid. One of the crew was killed. The others found the Star Gate through which one can travel to the alien worlds. But eventually the happy end came unlike the 2001 book when Discovery goes for no return.

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Aficionados of the film can eat this book like a good meal. I certainly did, over the course of a Seattle-Bay Area flight, trumping any of the edible cardboard on the airplane menu. Clarke offers his experience of working and re-working and re-working and endlessly finetuning 2001's script, lacing his narrative with succulent details of the many blind alleys and comic possibilities he brainstormed with Stanley Kubrick. If you're like me, seeing HAL as the end-all, be-all of the film's lasting greatness (it has several peerless qualities, to be sure, but HAL, in the greater context of science fiction, is for the ages) -if you are a HAL fan, it may amuse to learn the different names s/he could have alternately borne; Athena, for instance, or Socrates, both of which are interestingly Greek, but.... As well as tasty movie bits, there is plentiful prose here, special because it is unpublishable sections of the 2001 novel that had to be ejected because A) they contradict the final screenplay, or B) they slow things down. Unpublishable but fun to read to see how things could have gone had the film been skewed more to Clarke's rather than Kubrick's sensibilities.
—James Wayne Proctor

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