This was written by Clarke at the same time that he and Stanley Kubrick wrote the movie. The movie is a masterpiece, which despite all its flaws, is one of the great movies. The book not so much. Clarke, I think, is a highy overrated science fiction author. The book departs from the film at a nu...
Of the two science fiction epics featuring human actors in monkey suits that came out in 1968, I much prefer Planet of the Apes to 2001: A Space Odyssey. I would even argue that, despite its camp and the other's fairly universal acclaim, PotA is the better movie. In addition to the social commenta...
Note: This review was taken directly from my Goodreads account. I know I shouldn't compare 2001: A Space Odyssey to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but since I recently read both, I can't help it. I'm sorry, but 2001 was just so much better. Especially in terms of story-telling and prose.F...
I never knew this novel was written more or less in tandem with the movie screenplay. My edition has an forward by Arthur C. Clarke in which he describes how he and Stanley Kubrick took an idea from one of Clarke's stories and expanded it (quite a bit) and decided to write a screenplay. But they d...
A crystalline monolith appeared in Earth in the time of the first man-apes. It turns them into thinking creatures from which we humans originated. after Thousands and thousands years, the monolith of the same kind is found in the Moon. Scientists are dazzled about the thing. Many theories aroused....
Clarke is a favorite author, but 2001 isn't really a favorite for me among his novels--but that might have something to do with my introduction to this story. My mother dragged me to see the 2001 film when I was five-years-old. I found the psychedelic odyssey among the stars terrifying and cried unt...
3 – 3.5 starsAnother entry in my occasional forays into classic SF and I’d have to say this one was definitely a success. The Big Ideas in this one are sufficiently big and yet handled deftly enough that they don’t completely overshadow the story. The prose and characterisation, as I generally expe...
I did not expect a book on extra-terrestrial life to leave me thinking about the evolution of mankind.You won't find any alien action here, no war-of-the-worlds scenario. Instead, 2001 is a book that relies on the sheer strength of ideas - which is what I believe good science-fiction should be about...
See the full review on my blogOn my copy of this book, there wasn’t actually a synopsis, so I went into this book not knowing an awful lot about what it was about and what kind of things to expect – a blank canvas per se. The synopsis above makes it sound like an amazing adventure but I do not think...
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