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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Key facts
- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Cover artist
- Robert McCall
- Language
- English
- Series
- Space Odyssey
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Publisher
- Hutchinson (UK), New American Library (US)
- Publication date
- June 1968 ( 1968-06 )
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardcover, paperback)
- Pages
- 221 (US), 224 (UK)
- Isbn
- 978-0-453-00269-1
- Followed by
- 2010: Odyssey Two
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- Odyssey
- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- New American Library
- Series
- Space Odyssey
- Followed by
- 2010: Odyssey Two
- Based on
- The Sentinel
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- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- publication date
- 1968-00-00
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- 2001: A Space Odyssey
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- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- cover art by
- Robert McCall
- form of creative work
- novel
- inception
- 1968-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. An elaboration of Clarke and Kubrick's collaborative work on this project was made in the 1972 book The Lost Worlds of 2001.
The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, including "The Sentinel" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title "Sentinel of Eternity"). The first part of the novel, in which aliens influence the primitive ancestors of humans, is similar to the plot of Clarke's 1953 short story "Encounter in the Dawn".
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