![]() ![]() Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., ★★★ out of four) effectively chronicles all of it, down to the smallest spaceship details and the most petty business decisions. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick - got together and created an astounding, philosophical and downright Homeric work that explored evolution, artificial intelligence and the existence of alien life in the universe. Then a couple of cultural giants - novelist Arthur C. Until that point, science fiction movies were mainly considered trash. In 1968, 2001 changed the game for the sci-fi genre. It's the 50th birthday of a film that was supposed to be - and definitely is - "the proverbial 'really good' science fiction movie," and Michael Benson's exhaustive new book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey stars the two men at the center of an influential powerhouse. ![]()
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