2001: An Odyssey of Some Sort, Anyway
As a bright-eyed 13-year old, I read Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ and ever since, it’s been a pretty special book to me. Before I lost interest in science fiction, I read the rest of the series (‘2010’ and ‘2061’), and got totally immersed into Clarke’s view of the world. I mean, what else can you say about a guy that initially made up the idea of using a planet’s gravity to slingshot into space, only to have NASA try it out and find that it WORKS? So I thought he was cool, and I’ve been looking forward to the kinds of things that were in ‘2001,’ and also the year itself. So here we are. Curious about what Clarke & Kubrick got right? Check this out.