Book review: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
By Arthur C. Clarke.
Illustrations by Joe Wilson.
Published by The Folio Society.
All illustrations from The Folio Society edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
. © JoeWilson2016
2001: A Space Odyssey is a long film. Having experienced both it and the actual year 2001, it must be said the film seemed the longer of the two.
In summary: Music. Prehistoric ape men throwing bones into the air. Spaceships moving very slowly to classical music. Leonard Rossiter. The excellent HAL shutdown sequence. The space baby bit which nobody really understands. Many hippies came away in 1968 thinking they had seen the best film ever made. Perhaps they were right. No one had after all, seen Timecop then.
Some muse that the film proves that director Stanley Kubrick helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landings the following year. This seems unlikely. Kubrick was after all a very…
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