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Old 11-15-2010, 01:10 PM   #39
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by BenG View Post
If I remember correctly, Clarke expanded the short story into the novel so Kubrick could make a movie of it. Kubrick changed the ending because he didn't want to have two movies ending with an exploding nuclear bomb.
Ummm, the short story was The Sentinal and I would say that it more suggested 2001 than was expanded into 2001. It wholly deals with the finding of an Alien Artifact on the Moon... and IIRC, the artifact did send a signal out, but not necessarily to anything in the Solar System.

If you ever find a copy of the The Lost Worlds of 2001 (IIRC), its worth a look. In it Clarke describes how the book and the movie were kind of co-developed at the same time. It also contains a number of pieces of earlier drafts of the Novel.

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