When one of the major and most respected authors of our time, Arthur C. Clarke, collaborates with one of the most visionary and avant-garde directors of our time, Stanley Kubrick, the movie that is created will certainly be, at the very least, memorable.

1968's "2001 A Space Odyssey" was that and more; a genuine classic, an epic science fiction film, and best-selling novel.

14 years later it spawned a sequel, "2010: Odyssey Two", which was made into a movie by Peter Hyams in 1984 ("2010: The Year We Make Contact").  "2061: Odyssey Three" came in 1987, and "3001 The Final Odyssey" was published a decade later (1997).

2001 is a universe that expanded over thirty years and a millennium, portraying a future that was possible, believable and exciting.

- written by John Pickard