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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The359: [QB] In a new foreward in the millenial edition novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey, they describe the process of writing both the book and the movie at the same time. The entire story begins in 1948 when "The Sentinel" was written for a BBC short story competition (it didn't even place). But this merely covers the parts on the moon. Another five shorts story, one of which is known as "Encounter In The Dawn" (reprinted, along with "The Sentine", in Clarke's anthology "Expedition To Earth"), make up the rest of the 2001 story. Both script and novel were written at the same time, with entire chunks of either being rewritten after they had seen parts of the other. The story was originally titled "Journey Beyond The Stars", before being changed to "How The Solar System Was Won". The movie did indeed beat the book out by a few months (novel published in July 1968). At the end Clarke adds: "The novel you are about to read has sometimes been criticized for explaining too much, and thus destroying the movie's mystery (Rock Hudson stormed out of the premiere complaining "Can someone tell me what the hell this is all about?") But I am quite unrepentant: the printed text has to give much more detail than can be shown on the screen." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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