An alien artifact teaches a man-ape to use tools. Heywood Floyd goes to the moon to investigate a mysterious situation. Dave Bowman and his crewmates, most of them in cryogenic sleep, head toward Saturn....
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Your first gripe is common in sci-fi. If the idea and plot are good enough - as here - I can overlook the gripe.
one year ago
JimArthur C. Clarke's prose doesn't bring all the boys to the yard.
It has been decades since I read Clarke's explication of his and Kubrick's joint effort so this comment is somewhat cryptic - would you care to elaborate?
I recall that Clarke well knew his audience in that he chose to make Kubrick's oblique allusion relatively straight-forward.
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I plan on reading it sometime this month.
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It has been decades since I read Clarke's explication of his and Kubrick's joint effort so this comment is somewhat cryptic - would you care to elaborate?
I recall that Clarke well knew his audience in that he chose to make Kubrick's oblique allusion relatively straight-forward.
one year ago