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2001: A Space Odyssey
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2001: A Space Odyssey Mass market paperbound - 2000

by Arthur C. Clarke

A special new Introduction by the author highlights this reissue of a classic science fiction novel that changed the way people looked at the stars--and themselves.


Summary

2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves....

2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made--brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick....

2001 is finally here....

First line

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

Details

  • Title 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Author Arthur C. Clarke
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition English Language
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ace Books, New York
  • Date 2000-09-01
  • ISBN 9780451457998 / 0451457994
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.76 x 4.18 x 0.94 in (17.17 x 10.62 x 2.39 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1060
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Outer space
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) wrote a hundred books and more than a thousand short stories and essays covering science fiction and science fact in a career spanning more than six decades. Among his bestselling novels are Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama.

In 1945, he proposed global broadcasting via communication satellites in geostationary orbit. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another was expanded into 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he cowrote with Stanley Kubrick.

Born in Somerset, England, Clarke was educated at King's College, London. He worked in the British civil service and the Royal Air Force before turning full-time author in 1950. The recipient of dozens of awards, fellowships, and honorary doctorates, Clarke had both an asteroid and dinosaur species named after him. Queen Elizabeth II gave him a knighthood in 1998.

Clarke lived in Sri Lanka since 1956, engaged in diving, astronomical observations, and underwater tourism.

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