Sentinel of Eternity		2001: A Space Odyssey		The Lost Worlds of 2001
	2010: Odyssey Two		Arthur C. Clarke signs...		2061: Odyssey Three
	3001: The Final Odyssey		Final thoughts: A Space Odyssey, from Start to Finish

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Sentinel of Eternity

"Before there were men on Earth, that signal- sending pyramid had stood alone on a lifeless moon. What would happen now that its alarm was silenced?" In 1968, we all discovered just what did happen. 10 Story Fantasy Copyright 1951 by Avon Periodicals, Inc.

The story that would ultimately lead Clarke and Kubrick to create "2001: A Space Odyssey" appears fourth in the list of "Ten Fantastic Short Stories" which comprised Vol 1, No 1 of "10 Story Fantasy". This uncredited drawing may well be the first graphic image ever to illustrate Clarke's words, and can perhaps be considered a direct if distant ancestor of Stanley Kubrick's work. The "Three Great Novelettes" that preceded the short stories seem to have been something of a bonus, but there is something about the whole concept of pulp science- fiction that makes you yearn for a time machine of your own...

"Three Great Novelettes"
	Tyrant and Slave-Girl on Planet Venus" (science-fiction) by John Beynon Bert had to take his choice of the decadence of Old Mars or the harsh virility of the New Venus.
	"The Poisonous Soul" (weird-fantasy) by Franklin Gregory Was that stranger merely a man who looked like a snake - or was he actually a snake that looked like a man?
	"Getaway on Krishna" (interplanetary adventure) by L. Sprague de Camp There was a secret to winning that mad race over the ice of that far planet - a secret only one Earthman knew.

"Ten Fantastic Short Stories"
	Haunted Atoms by A.E. Van Vogt Five hundred years after Hiroshima, will new spectres walk among the graves?		Cry Witch! by Fritz Leiber What was it about that young lady that made the villagers bar their doors at night?
	Friend to Man by C.M. Kornbluth Martian charity demanded payment in its own eerie way!		Sentinel of Eternity by Arthur C. Clarke What would happen when the signal pyramid on Luna was silenced?
	The Other Side of the Wall by August Derleth Pineus Hawk couldn't understand why that unfinished wall whispered to him.		Private World by Martin Pearson Mr. Allen found himself being shot at in a war he couldn't believe in!
	Uneasy Lies the Head by Lester Del Rey Civilization would fail if no one could be found strong enough to replace the dying mastermind.		Seeds of Futurity by Kris Neville Edward Barnett had a scheme to solve an old world's strange dilemma.
	Who Builds Maos Traps? by K.W. Bennett Some fiend left a "better mouse trap" at the city editor's desk.		The Woodworker by Gene A. Davidson Something was carving stinging insects out of wood - and bringing them to life!

2001: A Space Odyssey

On your left, the dust jacket to the first U.S. printing of "2001: A Space Odyssey", published in 1968 by the New American Library, featured (front) Robert McCall's widely- reproduced painting of the Orion spacecraft leaving the space station (the inappropriate "jet trail" is a giveaway! Kubrick only shows us the Orion on its approach to the station) and (back) a still of Dave's face from the movie. Try buying this now for the original cover price of $4.95. On your right, how the book first appeared in the U.K., courtesy of publishers Hutchinson & Co. Dave's face makes it on the front cover, while the Orion spacecraft looms out of the gloom on the back. A bargain, at 25s (£1.25 - look it up in your history book). 2001: A Space Odyssey Copyright 1968 by Arthur C. Clarke and Polaris Productions, Inc. Published by the New American Library, Inc., New York and Hutchinson & Co., London

The following information applies to the U.S. edition. The text on the back reads: One of the most dazzling imaginative feats in film history, Stanley Kubrick's production took 4 years to make. It is the odyssey of the spacecraft Discovery, hurtling its human voyagers through a fantastic passage of stars towards a confrontation with an unknown Intelligence. Life magazine calls it "a movie that dazzles the eyes and gnaws at the mind." Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick for MGM, 2001: A Space Odyssey is now showing in the major cities of the world in Cinerama. The flaps of the dustjacket contain the following. A breakthrough into the twenty-first century, this novel puts the man of today into the credible environment of tomorrow, when he has conquered the perils of interplanetary travel and is ready for what comes next. You are hurtling across the abyss of space on an expedition to unexplored planets. Your only companion is a fellow astronaut: the three hibernauts who lie in a deep- freeze sleep will not be awakened until their skills are needed. An essential member of your crew is Hal, the electronic, almost- human brain that ceaselessly guides your course. For months your atom- powered craft Discovery has been carrying you away from earth at a hundred thousand miles an hour. You are now farther from home than any man in history. Your living quarters within the 400- foot- long spacecraft is a centrifugal drum equipped with an electronic library of literature and music. Here you relax, eat, exercise, sleep, and chat with Hal, the conversational computer who never forgets anything - not even your birthday. Your mission is of such importance that it has been surrounded by the deepest official secrecy. You are probing a fantastic frontier, following a trail that has led to the outer edges of the Solar System. You are searching the stars for evidence that Man is not alone. On the Earth- colonized Moon, deep in the crater Tycho, a discovery has been made that has shattered the human concept of the universe. You are journeying toward something. You do not know what it is. You only know that it has been waiting for Man to find it for three million years. Arthur C. Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a distinguished writer of science fiction, has produced a work that compares to the prophetic novels of Jules Verne. Author of the novel and co- author with Stanley Kubrick of the screenplay for Kubrick's motion picture production, Clarke creates the cosmic desolations and splendors that man will someday see as he travels gigamiles into time and space. The interplanetary craft of 2001 are scientifically exact projections of future space vehicles. And the mission, man's lonely search among alien stars for his intelligent equal, or master, is fantasy today. But gathering evidence indicates that this wild surmise may well be fact tomorrow. The book is dedicated To Stanley The foreword to the book also formed the first part of the text contained in the original cinema programme for the film. You can find the complete text in the "Components - Program" page. The following is something that you will not even find in the book itself: a complete list of contents (the U.K. edition lists the section headings, but not individual chapters).

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - LIST OF CONTENTS
I PRIMEVAL NIGHT
1	The Road to Extinction	2	The New Rock	3	Academy	4	The Leopard
5	Encounter in the Dawn	6	Ascent of Man	-	-	-	-
II TMA-1
7	Special Flight	8	Orbital Rendezvous	9	Moon Shuttle	10	Clavius Base
11	Anomaly	12	Journey by Earthlight	13	The Slow Dawn	14	The Listeners
III BETWEEN PLANETS
15	Discovery	16	Hal	17	Cruise Mode	18	Through the Asteroids
19	Transit of Jupiter	20	The World of the Gods	-	-	-	-
IV ABYSS
21	Birthday Party	22	Excursion	23	Diagnosis	24	Broken Circuit
25	First Man to Saturn	26	Dialogue with Hal	27	"Need to Know"	28	In Vacuum
29	Alone	30	The Secret	-	-	-	-
V THE MOONS OF SATURN
31	Survival	32	Concerning E.T.'s	33	Ambassador	34	The Orbiting Ice
35	The Eye of Japetus	36	Big Brother	37	Experiment	38	The Sentinel
39	Into the Eye	40	Exit	-	-	-	-
VI THROUGH THE STAR GATE
41	Grand Central	42	The Alien Sky	43	Inferno	44	Reception
45	Recapitulation	46	Transformation	47	Star-Child	-	-

The Lost Worlds of 2001

	"The ultimate trip began with a story called THE SENTINEL, by Arthur C. Clarke. It took flight when Stanley Kubrick asked Clarke to write a novel of space exploration upon which the acclaimed director would base a movie. The result was one of the most extraordinary films of all time. Now for the first time the reader is taken on every stage of this great adventure. Here is the original story. Here are the different versions of 2001 as they evolved in the interplay between two brilliantly charged imaginations. And here is Clarke's own intimate account of the unique chemistry between author and director which created - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY."
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Copyright © 1972 by Arthur C. Clarke
BLAST OFF! "Between the first and last decades of the Twentieth Century lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in morse code and global television from the sky, between Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and Kwame Chaka, Supreme President of the African Federation. But above all, it was the gulf between the first hundred- foot flight at Kitty Hawk, and the first billion mile mission to the moons of Jupiter..." The book is dedicated: To Scott, who conceived this book, and Stanley, who inspired it

THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 - LIST OF CONTENTS
-	Foreword	1	View of the Year 2000	2	Son of Dr. Strangelove	3	The Sentinel
4	Christmas, Shepperton	5	Monoliths and Manuscripts	6	The Dawn of Man	7	First Encounter
8	Moon-Watcher	9	Gift from the Stars	10	Farewell to Earth	11	The Birth of HAL
12	Man and Robot	13	From the Ocean, from the Stars	14	With Open Hands	15	Universe
16	Ancestral Voices	17	The Question	18	Midnight, Washington	19	Mission to Jupiter
20	Flight Pay	21	Discovery	22	The Long Sleep	23	Runaway
24	First Man to Jupiter	25	The Smell of Death	26	Alone	27	Joveday
28	Jupiter V	29	Final Orbit	30	The Impossible Stars	31	Something Is Seriously Wrong with Space
32	Ball Game	33	Last Message	34	The Worlds of the Star Gate	35	Reunion
36	Abyss	37	Cosmopolis	38	Scrutiny	39	Skyrock
40	Oceana	41	Into the Night Land	42	Second Lesson	-	Epilogue

2010: Odyssey Two

	Carl Sagan made it on the front of the dust jacket of Arthur C. Clarke's not- quite- sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey", "2010: Odyssey Two". Sagan's endorsement is displayed right under the main title: "A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001." The back of the jacket is given over to a portrait photograph of Clarke. This book is slightly larger in format than the original. Embossed into the front board cover is the same view of the Discovery as appears at the bottom of the jacket illustration.
2010: Odyssey Two A Del Rey Book : Published by Ballantine Books Copyright 1982 by Serendip BV : First Edition: December 1982
The front flap of the dust jacket includes the following. When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? Would there be a sequel? Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international best- seller, Clarke has written what will be truly one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement. This is fiction in the grand tradition. Beside it, even 2001: A Space Odyssey is mere prologue! The back flap of the dust jacket contains biographical information about Clarke. The book has the following dedication. Dedicated, with respectful admiration, to two great Russians, both depicted herein: General Alexei Leonov - Cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, Artist and Academician Andrei Sakharov - Scientist, Nobel Laureate, Humanist. Cover illustration is by Michael Whelan. Unlike its predecessor, 2010 comes complete with a contents list.

2010: ODYSSEY TWO - LIST OF CONTENTS
I LEONOV
1	Meeting at the Focus	2	The House of the Dolphins	3	SAL 9000	4	Mission Profile
5	Leonov	-	-	-	-	-	-
II TSIEN
6	Awakening	7	Tsien	8	Transit of Jupiter	9	The Ice of the Grand Canal
10	A Cry from Europa	11	Ice and Vacuum	-	-	-	-
III DISCOVERY
12	Downhill Run	13	The Worlds of Galileo	14	Double Encounter	15	Escape from the Giant
16	Private Line	17	Boarding Party	18	Salvage	19	Operation WINDMILL
20	Guillotine	21	Resurrection	-	-	-	-
IV LAGRANGE
22	Big Brother	23	Rendezvous	24	Reconnaissance	25	The View from Lagrange
26	Probation	27	Interlude: True Confessions	28	Frustration	29	Emergence
V A CHILD OF THE STARS
30	Homecoming	31	Disneyville	32	Crystal Spring	33	Betty
34	Valediction	35	Rehabilitation	36	Fire in the Deep	37	Estrangement
38	Foamscape	39	In the Pod Bay	40	'Daisy, Daisy...'	41	Graveyard Shift
VI DEVOURER OF WORLDS
42	The Ghost in the Machine	43	Thought Experiment	44	Vanishing Trick	45	Escape Manoeuvre
46	Countdown	47	Final Flyby	48	Over the Nightside	49	Devourer of Worlds
VII LUCIFER RISING
50	Farewell to Jupiter	51	The Great Game	52	Ignition	53	A Gift of Worlds
54	Between Suns	55	Lucifer Rising	-	-	-	-

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2061: Odyssey Three

	"2061: Odyssey Three" takes us into new territory, if for no other reason than that we have no visual interpretation to help or hinder us. There is no film version of 2061, so we are free to draw whatever conclusions we like from Arthur C. Clarke's words alone. The back cover has the same picture of Arthur C. Clarke as was used for 2010.
2061: Odyssey Three A Del Rey Book : Published by Ballantine Books Copyright 1987 by Serendip BV : First Edition: January 1988
The front cover flap description proclaims (with book titles capitalized (not), as shown): Only rarely does a novelist weave a tapestry so compelling that it captures the imagination of the entire world. But that is precisely what Arthur C. Clarke accomplished with 2001: a space odyssey. It is even more unusual that an author is able to complement so well- received an invention with an equally successful sequel. But Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: odyssey two enthralled a huge audience worldwide. Now, in 2061: odyssey three, Arthur C. Clarke revisits the most famous future ever imagined, as two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. And Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths, must once again confront Dave Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Humanity is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. Arthur C. Clarke's 2061: odyssey three is a truly masterful elaboration on one man's epic vision of the Universe. The book has the following dedication. To the memory of Judy-Lynn Del Rey, editor extraordinary, who bought this book for one dollar - but never knew if she got her money's worth Cover illustration is by Michael Whelan. Here is the contents list for 2061.

2061: ODYSSEY THREE - LIST OF CONTENTS
I THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
1	The Frozen Years	2	First Sight	3	Re-entry	4	Tycoon
5	Out of the Ice	6	The Greening of Ganymede	7	Transit	8	Starfleet
9	Mount Zeus	10	Ship of Fools	11	The Lie	12	Oom Paul
13	'No-one told us to bring swimsuits...'	14	Search	-	-	-	-
II THE VALLEY OF BLACK SNOW
15	Rendezvous	16	Touchdown	17	The Valley of Black Snow	18	'Old Faithful'
19	At the End of the Tunnel	20	Recall	-	-	-	-
III EUROPEAN ROULETTE
21	The Politics of Exile	22	Hazardous Cargo	23	Inferno	24	Shaka the Great
25	The Shrouded World	26	Night Watch	27	Rosie	28	Dialogue
29	Descent	30	Galaxy Down	31	The Sea of Galilee	-	-
IV AT THE WATER HOLE
32	Diversion	33	Pit Stop	34	Car Wash	35	Adrift
36	The Alien Shore	-	-	-	-	-	-
V THROUGH THE ASTEROIDS
37	Star	38	Icebergs of Space	39	The Captain's Table	40	Monsters from Earth
41	Memoirs of a Centenarian	42	Minilith	-	-	-	-
VI HAVEN
43	Salvage	44	Endurance	45	Mission	46	Shuttle
47	Shards	48	Lucy	-	-	-	-
VII THE GREAT WALL
49	Shrine	50	Open City	51	Phantom	52	On the Couch
53	Pressure Cooker	54	Reunion	55	Magma	56	Perturbation Theory
57	Interlude on Ganymede	-	-	-	-	-	-
VIII THE KINGDOM OF SULPHUR
58	Fire and Ice	59	Trinity	60	Midnight in the Plaza	-	-

3001: The Final Odyssey

	"In the year the computer Hal was created, Arthur C. Clarke brings the Odyssey to the conclusion millions have been awaiting." So commences the tale that brings to a close the Space Odyssey saga. As if Clarke doesn't have something up his sleeve to greet the new millennium, which he has set his sights on.
3001: The Final Odyssey Voyager An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers The Voyager World Wide Web site address is http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/voyager Copyright Serendip BV 1997
The front flap of the dust jacket includes the following. Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest prophet of the space age, at last concludes the space odyssey he embarked upon in 1968 with both the book and film of 2001. He shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film, and later resolved some of its lingering enigmas in the sequels 2010 and 2061 - verifying Kubrick's comment, 'Arthur somehow manages to capture the hopeless yet admirable desire to know things that can really never be known'. Arthur C. Clarke's continuing and constant search for answers has brought us now the final episode in the greatest story ever written of humanity's destiny in space. With 3001: The Final Odyssey we experience once more the uncanny influence of the Monoliths and the limitless power of an alien technology. Frank Poole was last seen alive in the vicinity of the United States Spaceship Discovery en route to Jupiter's moons. The year was A.D. 2001 and the Series 9000 HAL computer on board Discovery had malfunctioned. Frank was Hal's first victim. Grappling frantically with the broken air hose of his spacesuit, Frank died in the blackness and vacuum of space. In A.D. 3001 his perfectly preserved body is retrieved by Captain Dimitri Chandler of the spacetug Goliath; medical and electro- optical technologies restore his life and then enhance it with a Braincap. Thus Frank becomes a telepathic, machine- assisted inhabitant of the first years of the fourth millennium, with a lot to learn. The alien Monoliths have been silent since the eruption of Jupiter into a sun in A.D. 2010. Their last message was a warning: ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. But Frank Poole is an exception to the aliens' interdict. Or so he hopes. Frank has unfinished business on Europa. And perhaps Dave Bowman, his long- lost colleague from the Discovery, is there, a thousand years older but not dead. And alien. Forever exploring the vastness of space and the mystery of life, Arthur Clarke has himself become the Odysseus of the space age. His imagination is the most celebrated in the world, yet he has written, 'The universe is such a strange and wonderful place that reality will always out- reach the wildest imagination'. The back flap of the dust jacket contains biographical information about Clarke. The book is dedicated: FOR CHERENE, TAMARA AND MELINDA - may you be happy in a far better century than mine Cover illustration is by Chris Moore. Here is the contents list for 3001.

3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY - LIST OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE: The Firstborn
I - STAR CITY
1	Comet Cowboy	2	Awakening	3	Rehabilitation	4	A Room with a View
5	Education	6	Braincap	7	Debriefing	8	Return to Olduvai
9	Skyland	10	Homage to Icarus	11	Here be Dragons	12	Frustration
13	Stranger in a Strange Time	-	-	-	-	-	-
II - GOLIATH
14	A Farewell to Earth	15	Transit of Venus	16	The Captain's Table	-	-
III - THE WORLDS OF GALILEO
17	Ganymede	18	Grand Hotel	19	The Madness of Mankind	20	Apostate
21	Quarantine	22	Venture	-	-	-	-
IV - THE KINGDOM OF SULPHUR
23	Falcon	24	Escape	25	Fire in the Deep	26	Tsienville
27	Ice and Vacuum	28	The Little Dawn	29	The Ghosts in the Machine	30	Foamscape
31	Nursery	-	-	-	-	-	-
V TERMINATION
32	A Gentleman of Leisure	33	Contact	34	Judgement	35	Council of War
36	Chamber of Horrors	37	Operation Damocles	38	Pre-emptive Strike	39	Deicide
40	Midnight Pico	-	-	-	-	-	-
EPILOGUE

Final thoughts: A Space Odyssey, from Start to Finish

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