Space Odysseys, 1968-1997
2001 was inspired by Clarke's short story 'The Sentinel,' and the screenplay for the film was co-authored by Clarke and the film's director, Stanley Kubrick. It stands as an iconic work of science fiction.
In this still image (from a promotional booklet in the Clarke library, pictured below) we see astronaut Dave Bowman reckoning with a temporal anomaly in the famous and visually ground-breaking 'star gate' sequence.
Front cover to the 1983 anthologized version of Clarke's 'The Sentinel': the short story that inspired 2001. You can find this story in its entirety in The Great Read digital volume.
Back cover to the same edition, offering a succinct yet comprehensive survey of Clarke's career.
Front cover of a promotional booklet on the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie.
Kubrick featurette within the booklet outlining the genesis of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Arthur C. Clarke featurette in the 2001: a Space Odyssey promotional booklet.
2001 is followed by three sequels, the first of which is 2010: Odyssey Two, published in 1982. The Clarke Library at the University of Liverpool contains many non-English language editions of his works, like this Danish edition of 2010, published in 1983.
The third and penultimate novel in the 'Space Odyssey' series, 2061: Odyssey Three was published in 1987.
The fourth and final volume in the series, published in 1997. Characters from the earlier novels are revisited within the narrative — although their reappearances do not, at first, seem at all familiar...