A Space Odyssey

Characters hal 9000 is a sentient computer or artificial intelligence that becomes the primary antagonist of 2001.
A space odyssey. Floyd first appears in 2001. As a single passenger dozes in his seat a flight attendant with velcro shoes recovers his floating pen. Clarke and kubrick worked on the book together but eventually only clarke ended up as the official author. The shuttle pilots carefully match rotation and steer the shuttle into the station s central docking bay.
A space odyssey 1968 2001. Strangelove 1964 director stanley kubrick became fascinated by the. Douglas rain as the voice of hal 9000 production. A space odyssey is based on the final version of the script for the 1968 motion picture but even so in some regards they differ due to late changes made by director stanley kubrick to that picture after the novel had largely been completed.
David dave bowman serves as the protagonist of 2001. A pan am space shuttle approaches a large spinning space station its revolutions mirroring those of the ape s spinning bone. In the prehistoric african veldt a tribe of hominids are driven away from their water hole by a rival tribe. After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the lunar surface mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer h a l.
A space odyssey film plot. It was developed concurrently with stanley kubrick s film version and published after the release of the film. The novel 2001.