Buy this book on-line CLARKE**, ARTHUR C: : 2001: a space odysseyLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1968. ISBN 090898303.
UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.No visible owner name,but front inner flap of original dw/dj's blurb,cut and pasted to grey front free endpaper and possibly covering/hiding one.Rear pastedown with a vertical ghost residue of glue and some paper loss as if the rear inner flap of dw/dj was previously pasted to it but has now been removed and missing.Generally clean,sharp-cornered - front lower corner with minimal dent - publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright crisp, non-oxidised,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,with similar silver gilt SBN to rear bd's lower edge towards foot of spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top edge slightly aged/darkened - possibly from dust-soiling; sporadically foxed and spotted,fore-edge lightly aged,but generally clean and foxing-free,contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Book is slightly cocked.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj, 1st edn,8-224pp [paginated] includes foreword,6 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.Much less common than the US HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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A novel by Arthur C. Clarke based on the screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick [derived from A.C Clarke's 1951 short story 'The Sentinel'],both of whom have contributed the foreword.
'The Sentinel' had appeared in '10 Story Fantasy' in 1951 as 'Sentinel of Eternity'. A simple,oddly haunting story, it tells of the discovery of an Alien artefact,created by an advanced race millions of years earlier,standing enigmatically on top of a mountain on the Moon.
This was to become the basis of perhaps the most famous of all sci-fi films many years later: 2001 - a space odyssey,for which ACC wrote the script with Stanley Kubrick.The novelisation,was written by ACC alone,on the basis of the script; the film had already been made.The magnificent climax leaves the reader in little doubt as to why it is considered one of the best novels of its type,and it shows why it has claimed such a central place in our imaginings of the future.
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