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ISBN. 978-0-453-00269-1. Followed by. 2010: Odyssey Two. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British 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 Right Stuff. The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first astronauts selected for the NASA 's Project Mercury program. The Right Stuff is based on extensive research by Wolfe, who interviewed ...
Citizen of the Galaxy. Have Space Suit—Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, and October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. The last Heinlein novel to be published by Scribner's ...
Budget. $10.5 million. Box office. $146 million. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and it was inspired by multiple short stories by Clarke, including "The Sentinel" (1951). Clarke also published a novelisation of the ...
Excession. Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture series, a series of ten science fiction novels which feature a utopian interstellar society called the Culture. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the ...
A Trip to the Moon (French: Le voyage dans la lune) [a] is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès.Inspired by Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from ...
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a science fiction novel by American author Hank Green. It was published on September 25, 2018, by Dutton Books, and is Green's debut novel. [1] Announced on September 19, 2017, the novel is the first of a two-book series, followed by A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.