![]() ![]() ![]() The most conspicuous of these is the title shared by the final section and its last chapter: "Lucifer Rising." While it seems unlikely that Clarke took this title from the 1972 avant-garde film by Kenneth Anger, they may have had some occult inspiration in common. Still, it creates some strangeness for a 21st-century reader now approaching the books as a series.Īfter reading 2001 and detecting an esoteric pattern in its structure, I wondered if there would be similar references and effects in the next book. ![]() So the choice made sense for their sake as potential 2010 readers also. In fairness, it's likely that many more people saw the 2001 movie than read the novel. No doubt he was motivated by the hope (fulfilled in 1984) that 2010 would also be a movie, and he wanted to make the book digestible into a screenplay without extra retconning. In every case where narrative continuity forces him to choose, he follows the film. Clarke's book 2010: Odyssey Two is a sequel to the 2001 movie. The mutually-informing parallel products were not identical a few significant differences separated their plots. 2001: A Space Odyssey was plotted by the author in collaboration with filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and then written in dialogue with the production of the movie. Clarke's "Odyssey sequence" straddles strangely the media of cinema features and text novels. ![]()
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