Space Odyssey

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Space Odyssey
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genrescience fiction
Published1968 (1968)–1997 (1997)
No. of books4

The Space Odyssey series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. The first novel was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. The second was made into a feature film, released in 1984, respectively. Two of Clarke's early short stories have ties to the series.

Literature

Short stories:

  • "The Sentinel" – short story written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity"
  • "Encounter in the Dawn" – short story first published in 1953 (re-titled "Encounter at Dawn" or "Expedition to Earth" in some later collections)

Novels:

Comic books:

  • film of the same name
  • film of the same name
    that ran from 1976 to 1977
  • 2010 – based on the 1984 film of the same name, originally published in Marvel Super Special #37, then again as a two-issue miniseries; both versions published by Marvel Comics in 1984

Films

Future

It was reported on Yahoo Entertainment in 2000 that M.G.M. and Tom Hanks were in discussions regarding turning both 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey into movies (Hanks would reportedly play Frank Poole in the 3001 film). An update in 2001 stated that there was no further development on the project.[1]

On 3 November 2014 it was reported that the U.S. cable channel

2001: A Space Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick were reported as having "offered their full support", but the extent of their involvement was not known at the time.[2] In February 2016, the series was mentioned as one of Syfy's "in development pipeline" projects during their press release for Prototype,[3]
though no further announcements have been made since that time.

Development

The 2001 screenplay was written by Clarke and

Transience
", has plot elements set in about the same time in human history, but is otherwise unrelated.

The 1972 book The Lost Worlds of 2001 contains material that did not make it into the book or film.

Clarke's first attempt to write the sequel to 2001 was a film screenplay, though he ultimately wrote a novel instead that was published in 1982. Clarke was not directly involved in the production of the second film, although he did communicate with writer/director Peter Hyams a great deal during the production via the then-pioneering medium of

e-mail (as published in the book The Odyssey File) and also made a non-speaking cameo appearance
in the film. Kubrick had no involvement in the 2010 novel or film, or any of the later projects.

The Space Odyssey series combines several science-fiction narrative conventions with a

retcons
the storyline of the first book to make the destination Jupiter as seen in the film.

Clarke stated that the

orthogonal to space in relativity theory) to the Space Odyssey series.[4]

Characters

References

  1. ^ "3001: The Final Odyssey - Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies". 12 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Ausiello, Michael (2014-11-03). "'2001: A Space Odyssey' Sequel Ordered at Syfy — '3001: The Final Odyssey'". TVLine. Archived from the original on 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  3. ^ "Prototype: Syfy Orders New Thriller Series Pilot - canceled TV shows". TV Series Finale. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  4. ^ Review of “Firstborn” on www.scifidimensions.com
  5. ^ Obituary: William Sylvester, By Richard Chatten, 14 March 1995, The Independent
  6. ^ 3001:The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
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