rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (12/18/84)
[] My version of history goes like this: 2001, the book, was written in step with the movie. Clarke originally responded to a request from Kubrick for a "space epic" by sending him a short story called "The Sentinel," written in 1948 for a BBC competition. "Brainstorming," hard work and many revisions took it from there. The book really wasn't finished before the film was. This story is told by Clarke in "The Lost Worlds of 2001" Copyright 1972 -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts." Dick Grantges hound!rfg