Quote Originally Posted by BobBong
Arthur C. Clarke died tomorrow... urrr.. today.. depending on where you are...

according to my time.. he died... tomorrow! :wtf:
He was always writing about the future, so maybe it is fitting that he somehow managed to die in the future...

I liked "2001," the novel, and also liked the movie. In a lot of ways, I felt like I got more out of the book. The movie was visually interesting and Kubrik made a great effort at authenticity, but the pace was a bit slow, and some of the visual special effects that were so revolutionary at the time distracted from the story. The book gave a better understanding for what was going on.

One of the wierd things about the book and the movie was that they were different in certain details, like in the book the planet was Saturn, but in the movie it was Jupiter. Then when the next book, "2010," came out, Clarke had written it as a sequel to the movie, with all its details consistent with the movie, not the previous book. I thought that was wierd. And then of course when that book was adapted as a movie, it had details that differred from "2010," the book...

Clarke was a visionary and actuallly invented the concept for some things that were later develioped in real life. I remember reading somewhere that he invented the idea of the communications satellite, long before there was any kind of satellite technology at all, before any kind of spaceflight.