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On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:49:25 -0500, JimP wrote:

> On 22 Jun 2018 13:44:12 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:18:32 -0500, JimP wrote:
>>
>>> On 22 Jun 2018 07:26:34 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>>On 2018-06-21, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:53:31 -0400, Peter Flass
>>>>>> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 19 Jun 2018 21:33:20 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The first one, now number 4, was the best sf movie since
>>>>>>>> Forbidden Planet. My high school buddies and I had given up ever
>>>>>>>> seeing a good sf movie again.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2001?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My recollection is foggy, but my thought at the time was that Star
>>>>>>> Wars dropped in as a full-featured sci-fi movie into a desert of
>>>>>>> creature features and cheap B movies. I think it started the trend
>>>>>>> toward higher-class scifi now in the movies and on tv.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Andromeda Strain, The Omega Man, THX 1138, Silent Running,
>>>>>> Solaris, Fantastic Planet, Soylent Green, Dark Star, The Terminal
>>>>>> Man, A Boy and His Dog,
>>>>>> Logan's Run, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Close Encounters of the
>>>>>> Third Kind... just some of the films from that period -- hardly a
>>>>>> desert.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It was 2001 that really set the higher bar for science fiction
>>>>>> cinema, but nobody tried to reach it for quite a while.  Star Wars
>>>>>> did spawn a host of imitators, none of which were as good and some
>>>>>> of which were truly awful.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 2001 was good, but the ending was hokey - not the fault of the
>>>>> movie,
>>>>> since the book was also. I saw many of the others and thought some
>>>>> were pretty good. Blade Runner beat them all, but I believe that
>>>>> came after SW.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>AFAIK, the Book (2001) came after the film, and was really the
>>>>`bookifying'
>>>>of the script. Great film.
>>> 
>>> They were written at the same time. The author and the film maker had
>>> a number of arguments.
>>
>>There is another book about it.
> 
> The story I read titled 'The Sentinel', was a short story.

No, you misunderstand. There was:

1) The Sentinel (short story)
2) The 2001 book
3) The book about the writing/making of 2001



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