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"more like "zzzzzzzz""

3/2/2009 10:49:26 AM

I always loved 2010 more than 2001 (the movies, I mean). Have you read any of them? God damn Clarke was a fantastic writer. All the 2001 books except 3001 were good (and 3001 was... ok), and if you've never read Childhood's End... well.. you're missing out.

3/2/2009 10:49:42 AM

So can someone explain the discontinuity behind why, in 2001 they crew was going to Saturn but in the rest of the books it says they went to Jupiter?

3/2/2009 10:56:34 AM

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"Although the novel and film were developed simultaneously, the novel follows early drafts of the film, from which the final version deviated. These changes were sometimes for practical reasons relating to what could be filmed economically. The most notable differences are the change in the destination planet from Saturn to Jupiter, the names given to some characters and the precise sequence of events leading to HAL's demise. Also of note is the appearance of the monolith. In the film, Discovery's mission is to Jupiter, not Saturn. Kubrick used Jupiter because he and special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull could not decide on what they considered to be a convincing model of Saturn's rings for the film. Clarke also replaced Saturn with Jupiter in the novel's sequel 2010: Odyssey Two. Trumbull later developed a more convincing image of Saturn for his own directorial debut Silent Running."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Book

He did alot of this in his books. Several of his series changed characters' personalities, locations, etc as they progressed. He wasn't much for continuity sometimes, but he did it in an interesting way.

[Edited on March 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM. Reason : .]

3/2/2009 11:13:56 AM

6/17/2013 3:39:02 PM

and there we have it

6/17/2013 6:24:15 PM

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2/26/2016 12:16:24 AM

Read The Light of Other Days (its practically unfilmable)

amazing, but any movie made from it would be NC-17

and it would piss off every religion there is

2/26/2016 3:41:15 AM