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2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001 .
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, [3] inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey , widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.
From Narnia to A Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis. Edited with an Introduction by Ryder W. Miller. Ibooks (distr. by Simon & Schuster), 2003. Letters, essays and short stories reprinted. Republished in 2005 with new sub-title "Stories, letters, and commentary by and about C. S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke".
In 1982 Clarke continued the 2001 epic with a sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two.This novel was also made into a film, 2010, directed by Peter Hyams for release in 1984. Because of the political environment in America in the 1980s, the film presents a Cold War theme, with the looming tensions of nuclear warfare not featured in the novel.
One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962); [3] however, they were not all published at the same time.
Odyssey II, Odyssey 2, Odyssey Two, may refer to: Odyssey 2 (game console), a videogame console from Magnavox and Philips; 2010: Odyssey Two (novel), a 1982 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke; Odyssey II (fictional TV spacecraft), a fictional spaceship from the 2020 U.S. TV show The Astronauts
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 2001, is a collection of almost all science fiction short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke. It includes 114 [ 1 ] stories, arranged in order of publication, from " Travel by Wire! " in 1937 through to " Improving the Neighbourhood " in 1999.
"Encounter in the Dawn" [1] is a short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1953 in the magazine Amazing Stories. It is part of the short story collection Expedition to Earth. Its plot and ideas influenced the development of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its corresponding novel.