3001 The Final Odyssey- Prologue

Call them the Firstborn. Though they were not remotely human, they were flesh and blood, and when they looked out across the deeps of space, they felt awe, and wonder- and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they began to seek for fellowship among the stars.

In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

The great dinosaurs had long since passed away, their morning promise annihilated by a random hammerblow from space, when the survey ship entered the Solar System after a voyage that had already lasted a thousand years. It swept past the frozen outer planets, paused briefly above the deserts of dying Mars, and presently looked down on Earth.

Spread out beneath them, the explorers saw a world swarming with life. For years they studied, collected, catalogued. When they had learned all that they could, they began to modify. They tinkered with the destiny of many species, on land and in the seas. But which of their experiments would bear fruit, they could not know for at least a million years.

They were patient, but they were not yet immortal. THere was so much to do in this universe of a hundred billion suns, and other worlds were calling. So they set out once more into the abyss, knowning that they would never come this way again. Nor was there any need: the servants they had left behind would do the rest.

On Earth, the glaciers came and went, while above them the changeless Moon still carried its secret from the stars. With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice, the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the Galaxy. Strange and beautiful and terrible empires rose and fell, and passed on their knowledge to their successors.

And now, out among the stars, evolution was driving towards new goals. The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as as soon their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains, and then their thoughts alone, they transferred into shining new homes of metal and gemstone. In these, they roamed the Galaxy. They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.

But the age of the Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light.

Into pure energy, therefore, they presently transformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, the empty shells they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled to dust.

Now they were Lords of the Galaxy, and could rove at will among the stars, or sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. though they were freed at last from the tyranny of matter, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea. And their marvelous instruments still continued to function, watching over the experiments started so many ages ago.

But no longer were they always obedient to the mandates of their creators; like all material things, they were not immune to the corruption of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.

And sometimes, they discovered and sought goals of their own.

[ENGLISH] Prologue of 3001 The Final Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, read by Garrick Hagon
[PORTUGUÊS] Prólogo de 3001 A Odisséia Final de Arthur C. Clarke

[@GeneralOfAnegon]

Clarke's third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[@danielbreeden2568]

It proves true in many ways

[@antoniojudson6474]

InstaBlaster

[@danbreeden5481]

The only way to reach the limits of the possible is to go venture a little past them to the impossible

[@nearlyretired7005]

I was born in 1962 Mobile phones to me seem like magic!

[@WednesdaysDragon]

A fourth dimensional place would really blow your mind.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Mind blowing! Clarke was a genius and I love the 2001 series of sci-fi. 2001 Space Odyssey is the greatest sci-fi film ever made.

[@phoenixrivenus9270]

You realize the movie was not based off the book 2001: A Space Odyssey right?! They were written in conjunction and it is why they stayed mostly true to each other. Clarke I guess wrote this and 2010: The Year we Make Contact, with Kubrick's help. I will give this a chance. 2010 was just a snooze.

[@noelle3551]

@@phoenixrivenus9270 so did he help in writing 2061 and 3001? Visually 2001 was a good film in fact it was a work of art put to music but most of it was a snooze fest and definitely a cure for insomnia!! I preferred Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972), it was masterpiece also but at least it kept you awake!!

[@luthermcgee3767]

Yes indeed! One of the best! I remember when it came out into theaters I think 4/15/1968. When I went and saw it for the 1st time, I instantly fell in love with the movie. The spacecraft and HAL (Heuristicly programmed ALgorithmic computer) no less. I mean, absolutely every aspect of the movie was a masterpiece: music in place of rocket thrusts in space seeing that there's no sound in the airless vaccume of space, etc. Pretty stewardesses using PAN AM grip shoes, HAL reading the lips of David, and frank conspiring to disconnect him, and last but not least, the stargate.

[@geneobrien8907]

@@noelle3551 Kubrick and Clarke's masterpiece is a fascinating, thrilling and thought provoking film. Some people become exhilarated when they are intellectually stimulated, some don't.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@phoenixrivenus9270 The film was based at first on the story written by Clarke, "Sentinel", but Clarke and Kubrick changed it.

[@Engel888]

This is a work of Genius

[@danielbreeden2568]

I agree from one of the greatest visionaries of all times

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

Although this is just my view, IMHO this is starting to get close to God who wasn't just someone smart. Think Deeper.

[@jerobriggs5109]

Arthur C. Clarke is a poet.

[@johnappleseed8369]

And a novelist

[@luthermcgee3756]

jero briggs , A poet, and a genius.

[@antoniotesolin8010]

A poet from a parallel universe. An universe of observation and planning. The first ones might have sent him, along with Azimov, to plant the seed of upper intelligence. I’m glad I read those books early in my life. Hope to meet the other first borns and listen “HOMO SOL”....

[@antoniotesolin8010]

Nevertheless, there is a chance we are the first ones. And they are guiding us in our baby technological steps.

[@montylc2001]

The last few lines were poetic.....and prophetic. Kind of like another favorite quote of mine..."Intelligence is a tool used to achieve a goal....but goals are not always chosen intelligently."

[@BladeEffect]

"And some times they discovered and sought goals of their own.." - epic line there

[@logicplague2077]

2020: I bet I can eat this tide pod. Somehow I think humanity missed the mark.

[@brucemonkhouse6698]

One of the most imaginative and creative writer/futurist ever to wander through our time..

[@dannygriffith6185]

Arthur C Clarke. My absolute favorite Sci-fi writer.

[@acdcking1234]

I like him and Charles Sheffield

[@glazewall]

@@acdcking1234 tell us more ?

[@AlanCanon2222]

Tom Hanks wanted to make 2061. I think he wanted to also play Heywood Floyd, because it was the Space Station V scene between Floyd and the Russians that made him want to become an actor in the first place.. He still might.

[@routeman680]

Excellent reading of the text, clear and with perfect phrasing, by Garrick Hagon. Sounded a bit like Charlton Heston.

[@gregorylapointe4157]

With a little Kevin Spacey thrown in.

[@wangson]

Mind-boggling! Thank you!!!

[@ericschroeder591]

Wonderful, Thanks

[@Snuffkin1990]

I love the imagery you've used.

[@luthermcgee3756]

I started out a little critical, but at the 2/3rds point this video won my positive vote. Fantastic video.

[@jkleli]

This is brilliant.

[@travisgrant5608]

Brilliant! Clark was a genius!

[@floridamadman59]

Very nicely done!

[@alxxz]

"like all material things, they were not immune to the corruption of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy" Pure epic poetry!

[@georgejohnson1124]

Just friggin' Awesome!!!

[@RationalGamers]

There is no doubt that Clarke was the most expert of wordsmiths and 2001 is my favourite book but, while I can read his prose and never get sick of it, I found 3001 to be much more a jumble of concepts and ideas rather than the cohesive narratives of 2001 and 2010.

[@ThiagoWFlores]

Simplesmente genial!

[@jonescaleb12]

WE NEED A MOVIE OF THIS!!!

[@julianmarco4185]

The PC cultists would never allow it. They would say that the aliens are colonials involving themselves and putting themselves over the natural course of life of a planet. It doesn't matter if they maybe helped it or encouraged it. In the end the aliens aer still involving themselves controlling the other weaker races.

[@valenluca3253]

@@julianmarco4185 That's interesting. I will watch it if that's the case.

[@ANDROLOMA]

I would watch it. I read the book.

[@youarelife3437]

For me, this video itself is the movie. It's really much better than any movie can hope to achieve. The pictures, the lines, are all direct from the book. It helps my imagination soar.

[@floridamadman59]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[@rafafr9]

thanks

[@Kerri36982]

love this book

[@mikeanglada742]

Sir Arthuc C. Clarke was a Master storyteller. One of my all time favorites...

[@WETDOGBR]

Master piece

[@nielspemberton59]

I was watching this while listening to Woyciech Kielar's Exodus. This would be perfect music for 3001 : The Final Odyssey.

[@felcas]

This books is just FUCKING AWESOME! I wish a decent director could make a movie of them.

[@thomas.parnell7365]

Maybe James Cameron

[@patrickcummins79]

I got to say, I preferred 2001 as a stand alone; always liked the idea of the monoliths themselves, BEING the aliens/life force/god/force of life,evolution better, than them simply being tools of the creator aliens

[@Mechanized0]

Indeed. Leaving them unexplained made it significantly more intriguing and, quite frankly, less pretentious and presumptuous. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick preferred to leave the question open since he obviously was realistically unable to provide concrete answers. In short, he very unpretentiously was stating, "I do not know". This is why the film approached the subject from the perspective of a an inquisitive scientist and uncompromising artist asking questions as opposed to an authoritative figure granting answers for which he could not know or even realistically comprehend.

[@MarvinFalz]

I like the idea that the monolith's influence on humanity is ambivalent, since the first scientific breakthrough is the discovery of a weapon. The next four million years humanity advances in all fields of expertise, but the basic reality doesn't change. The aliens lure the humans to Jupiter and capture the only surviving crew member of the Discovery. They don't harm him, but they alter his integrity as a human being, and send him back to earth for some reason and purpose which remains unexplained in the movie. I don't get a 'love and peace' message out of 2001. I don't get a war message either. I appreciate the much more in-your-face message of 2010 at the height of the cold war era, and I like 2010 all in all, but it's jarring when Dave appears to Floyd and to his ex-woman, and a swarm of monoliths devouring Jupiter to form a second sun, seems weird and also dangerous to earth and its inhabitants, which are used to a day-night-cycle and certain temperatures. I imagine a second heats up the earth, and destroys all life as we know it.

[@HardKore5250]

How the monoliths get there?

[@Lucas-wt5hs]

Muito bom!

[@dougohboy5190]

so may questions and YET so many questions, and all seem to be answered in 5 minuites and 7 seconds...

[@fucheduck]

what sort of plot can come out of such grandiosity. that we mere humanoid beasts of Y2K can even relate to.

[@tomf3150]

Long story short the communications between monoliths are still sub light and are 500 years late when the monoliths decided mankind was going nowhere, being constantly at war... So a thousand years after 2001 it was decided to eliminate life on Earth, by obscuring the sun. The book is about mankind hacking the monoliths.

[@JSB103]

And they left the Moon here, with us. . . watching over us.

[@ANDROLOMA]

The lunatics supervising the asylum. What can go wrong?

[@Olhar.Internacional]

Wow, 3001 views!!

[@basesixty6739]

Wow this was posted exactly 3001 days ago

[@johnbarnett6924]

Listed as one of my favorite storyteller, and science fiction collections. John

[@thecovidprisoner]

2001 is a total masterpiece . What other film spans millions of years instantly , from bone too space ship in one shot ? Work of art by two genius's ........

[@nearlyretired7005]

The Discovery looks like a strand of DNA!

[@thecovidprisoner]

@@nearlyretired7005 Good point , DNA was discovered in 1869 so more than enough time for Kubrick and Clarke too get that idea maybe ?? 😀👍

[@Muzzly1234]

After hearing that excerpt, I am going to the library right... now.

[@David-jl1pk]

Excellent narration. I just might have to track down this audio book

[@HardKore5250]

Wooooooo!

[@AlanCanon2222]

There's about three versions of this overall speech in the series of four novels, I think. I like reading the later ones to see how he retools them. My official favorite work of fiction since childhood.

[@MG-bs5mr]

I seem to recall that he said at some point that a reader should assume that each book occurs in a slightly different version of a universe.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@MG-bs5mr Yep, absolutely.

[@johnbayer9795]

I didn't realize he'd reused text from the first book in the sequels--but then I never read them. (The giveaway was that phrase "they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea.")

[@SupaPoopaScoopa]

Yes, he's good at making scenes exciting regardless of there speed.

[@ellakoren]

Huge !

[@nkaiae]

That's incredible how he(Arthur C. Clarke) can develop a novel that can be real and occur in somewhere of this universe. In addition to that, we could be the "Et's" in the future.

[@xanadu7lukas]

Clarke a mind in a billion .RIPlmda..a poet a genius before his time

[@ANDROLOMA]

Clarke was also a failed heterosexual... like your father. 😃

[@eddiewallace6372]

Just... WOW

[@thedavecorp]

Imagine that; planting a seed and you know you'd never see if it grew.

[@manishmishraji]

thedavecorp thats a great insight. Wry touching.

[@OreadNYC]

It has happened much more often than you might think...

[@ANDROLOMA]

Don't all colonies have the same beginning?

[@dadautube]

well done ... if i'm not mistaken, this particular excerpt is in the original 2001 book too ...

[@AlphaWasSpotted]

this is correct

[@lelonfurr1200]

incredible thanks for posting how about posting all?

[@416dl]

Keep dreaming that some day as we leave conventional Hollywood theatrical modes behind and discover that if the work is worthy that an audience will eagerly consume the kind of long format and intellectually stimulating kind of work that typifies Clarke's work like few others. Cheers.

[@thedavecorp]

I love this book - I wish they'd make a movie.

[@putoone4352]

To anyone watching: this is the only video that this man ever uploaded.

[@cinemaniatv]

awesome! Wonder when they wil make movie out of this one. I think it is the best Odyssey book

[@danbreeden5481]

We will be the farmers of life and intelligence across the Galaxy

[@khadijagwen]

I think the best explanation of our existence is in "The Foundation Trilogy".

[@mirdordinii5783]

It should be noted that Susan Calvin is mentioned in 3001. The the robot stories are connected to the ones of Foundation. But that is merely a though to pass to you.

[@PaulGreen11]

Wow(and damn). Im so glad I was in the middle of a fresh rolled blunt when I clicked here. My mind is blown(again). "And sometimes they discovered, and sought, goals of their own." I just got a text messege, this bitch again, omg. She owes me $300. "Oh, If I dont pay my rent by tomorrow(last week) they're gonna evict me." Yesterday was payday. Until I get a call about my money I dont want to hear it. I hate Las Vegas. "And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed."

[@DrZaius75]

I like how Clarke talks about the Firstborn, but never offers a physical description.

[@cliddily]

Denis Villeneuve is making Rendezvous with Rama as an upcoming project!

[@dakrontu]

I forgot how good a writer he was.

[@toe2toe22]

3001 The Final Odyssey was the final odyssey in the series.

[@jaylenhioe2868]

I wished they made a movie for this

[@luthermcgee3756]

In the original story, it didn't say that they sought "fellowship" among the stars, it says, " they became farmers among the fields of stars..."

[@ANDROLOMA]

Something got lost in translation from English to English.

[@55Quirll]

Yeah, English is a difficult language to translate to, especially if the other language is English too.

[@kollinklipklop7035]

Ah, thank goodness ,i can unsubscribe from the history channel at last! No more ancient aliens for me. Thank u Arthur C Clark.

[@weldonwin]

When people say, "There are no aliens, we're alone, there is nothing out there" I feel sad, with a kind of horribly loneliness setting in. Then I realise, that even if we are alone now, we won't always be. If we are along, then that means we are the first and we have the possibility of being the progenitors of an entire galaxy of intelligent life. Now how is that for a thought and a responsibility?

[@virvisquevir3320]

weldonwin - It's quality more than quantity. In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine, Kubrick said "On the deepest psychological level the film's plot symbolizes the search for God, and it finally postulates what is little less than a scientific definition of God . . . The film revolves around this metaphysical conception, and the realistic hardware and the documentary feelings about everything were necessary in order to undermine your built-in resistance to the poetical concept." When asked by Eric Nordern in Kubrick's interview with Playboy if 2001: A Space Odyssey was a religious film, Kubrick elaborated:. I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the Sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia-less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe-can you imagine the evolutionary development that much older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities-and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans. In the same interview, he also blames the poor critical reaction to 2001 as follows: Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema. Allegorical interpretations The film has been seen by many people not only as a literal story about evolution and space adventures, but as an allegorical representation of aspects of philosophical, religious or literary concepts. Nietzsche allegory Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical tract Thus Spoke Zarathustra, about the potential of mankind, is directly referred to by the use of Richard Strauss's musical piece of the same name. Nietzsche writes that man is a bridge between the ape and the Übermensch.In an interview in the New York Times, Kubrick gave credence to interpretations of 2001 based on Zarathustra when he said: "Somebody said man is the missing link between primitive apes and civilized human beings. You might say that is inherent in the story too. We are semicivilized, capable of cooperation and affection, but needing some sort of transfiguration into a higher form of life. Man is really in a very unstable condition." Moreover, in the chapter Of the Three Metamorphoses, Nietzsche identifies the child as the last step before the Uberman (after the camel and the lion), lending further support to this interpretation in light of the 'star-child' who appears in the final scenes of the movie. Donald MacGregor has analysed the film in terms of a different work, The Birth of Tragedy, in which Nietzsche refers to the human conflict between the Apollonian and Dionysian modes of being. The Apollonian side of man is rational, scientific, sober, and self-controlled. For Nietzsche a purely Apollonian mode of existence is problematic, since it undercuts the instinctual side of man. The Apollonian man lacks a sense of wholeness, immediacy, and primal joy. It is not good for a culture to be either wholly Apollonian or Dionysian. While the world of the apes at the beginning of 2001 is Dionysian, the world of travel to the moon is wholly Apollonian, and HAL is an entirely Apollonian entity. Kubrick's film came out just a year before the Woodstock rock festival, a wholly Dionysian affair. MacGregor argues that David Bowman in his transformation has regained his Dionysian side. The conflict between humanity's internal Dionysus and Apollo has been used as a lens through which to view many other Kubrick films especially A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, and Eyes Wide Shut. Source: Wikipedia

[@OreadNYC]

Assuming, of course, that we do not fall into the trap suggested by Fermi's Paradox by destroying ourselves before we have the ability to travel and/or live away from the planet for long periods of time. (There are those who think that perhaps sapience inevitably brings about its own destruction because it doesn't know when to leave well enough alone.) There is certainly something lovely about the thought that we might turn out to be the ones who create life throughout the galaxy...but we need to evolve a great deal more emotionally and socially before we will be remotely capable of doing such a thing (let alone before we should give ourselves permission to do it). Before we start thinking about transforming other worlds, however, we really ought to at least make a serious attempt to clean up our own room and start attempting to communicate with the other intelligence(s) that already share this planet with us. Even then, as Dougal Dixon describes in his book "Man After Man", there is no guarantee that it will end well.

[@bencowart7642]

Whether there are or not is irrelevant. Either possibility is equally terrifying.

[@gregwilk9951]

The inborn nature of self destruction will prevent us from reaching the stars

[@TheoneGodfather]

I would suck to be that advanced/evolved.

[@robertgraziano]

Great book. Read it in one day.

[@twt3716]

My God. Its full of pants.

[@luizaugustoprado1358]

Reverência, assombro e solidão. Lampejos de inteligência cintilam e morrem na escuridão cosmica. A vida é bela, mas rara. Em toda a galáxia, não foi descoberto nada mais precioso do que a mente e incentivaram seu alvorecer por toda parte.

[@zappa7509]

👍

[@rafafr9]

do more of this, NOW!

[@ANDROLOMA]

A book too good to make into a movie.

[@Cahillbrazier]

wow

[@jancoyote52]

Yes, Clarke was correct. These being(s) are known to us as deities.

[@petercoderch589]

Why at 0:26 there is picture of an Asgard O'Neil class ship from the Asgard of SG-1? How is this related to TSO?

[@JULIASMITH-eg9kp]

❤❤it

[@TodaySatan]

Type 3 Civilization!!

[@1502shado]

the monolith is the dimension of the movie screen / it can be anything you want it to be,

[@MarvinFalz]

I don't know, an aspect ratio of 4:9 seems uncommon in every medium. Cinema screens aren't built to fit certain aspect ratios, they're built to fit the size of the theatre. The projection format of 2001 has changed several times. The ratio of the length of the sides of the monolith is 1:4:9, which is 1²:2²:3², an indication for the scientists that the monolith is in fact built by a higher intelligence. Seems like the side ratio of screens and the side ratio of the monolith are rather coincidental.

[@jubjub444]

We need 2063 first

[@Mark-uq9km]

Aha! You are the only one to recognize this novel from Clarke.

[@yevgeniygorbachev5152]

Stargate SG-1 reference 0:24

[@yevgeniygorbachev5152]

Also 4:32

[@thegreatagitator4675]

Thank you, captain obvious.

[@yevgeniygorbachev5152]

It's my jpb

[@yevgeniygorbachev5152]

job*

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

there were plans for this and 2061: Odyssey Three to be made into movies, sadly, they just remained plans.

[@ANDROLOMA]

Yet Hollywood decided instead to spoon-feed us George Lucas tripe.

[@alanbeckham9093]

@@ANDROLOMA Along with more Spiderman, Jurrasic, and Jumanji re- boots.

[@donogden986]

Maybe we are the first born.

[@55Quirll]

The first ones from B5🤗😉

[@vgovger4373]

Clarke wrote 2067 already, it's available.

[@ANDROLOMA]

Humanity needs the movie for those lacking reading comprehension.

[@danbreeden5481]

2001 probably the most likely scenario of first contact

[@garymarzuki8391]

I have read 2001 and then saw the movie, then I read 2010 and then saw the movie...I then read 2061... and now I'm still waiting for the movie. Now I guess I had better get busy on the last book...because it looks like Hollyweird is to busy making comic book superhero movies to make 2061.

[@arnorrian1]

The first book I bought.

[@Mark-uq9km]

To be able to create and fantasize about the possibilities of the universe and to be able to question our origins as physical and thinking beings relates to our beginnings from our ancestral star dust. Was there a malfunction of some kind that severed our abilities to know our origins and relation to the stars or was this omission intentional? And, if so, why? We fight and aspire to go back to our ancestral home. We dream of it in our writings and cinemas. We dream of a future for our children we will never know. Our 'great leaps' are but microscopic footsteps to regain our stellar souls.

[@natashadaines7712]

What's the song at 1.59

[@followerofjulian1652]

Not any worse than "2010: The Year We Make Contact."

[@SupaPoopaScoopa]

Thinking about it, as much as I don't think they are simliar at all, you could do a new Space Odyssy movie like Promethues for todays audience.

[@MacGyverinSpace]

The O'Niell! 0:21

[@SupaPoopaScoopa]

@killzonerome I gotta say that I doubt a movie like that would go down well with todays mtv generation. If Space Odyssey was done today it would probably be akin to movies like Solace & Moon... and they didn't do so well, but I'm sure space odyssey fans appreciated them. Space Odyssey 3 would really have to be something special - like the original was in it's time - to be a success.

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

is this series of some books? wich series

[@maxxwitt207]

Microphunktv za space odyssey series by Arthur c Clarke

[@thebeezknees]

The book 3001 is different to this story, Go read it. It explains all your questions, Don't bother to read 2063 it's hard going and tells you nothing of 2001 and you don't need to read it before you read 3001.

[@55Quirll]

I enjoyed 2010 because it explained why HAL went bonkers and tried to kill everybody.

[@0d0i0a0n0e0L0a0]

they came from Andromeda? or Pledeians? i like this script so much! Long Live Annunaki! LOL

[@shstrang98]

Uhh yeah we sure do. Looks like great sci-fi.

[@jephidaniels1199]

Year is 2021!! Man and the Earth does not have 1 Million years. The time is now, for so many reasons. At best , man and Earth has 800,000 years of nurturing and spontaneous life! After that it is Heat and Dust, and more heat! As the earth will have moved within the inner edge of the Habitable zone in its orbit. This is inevitable,this is real!!

[@bobert4him]

Okay Arthur. Good to know.

[@jocknarn3225]

would love 2 see this made into a movie .. do the usual thing; prequel 2061 .. then a reboot prequel of that prequel 2010

[@FranciscoAlves-om2kj]

Am I the only one that thinks of H.P. Lovecraft and, (ugh please don't think I'm comparing Clarke to this next fellow), Von Daniken. I would love to see a movie about this novel as well but now that Kubrick is gone, I hope that Chris Nolan makes this.

[@FranciscoAlves-om2kj]

Teralek Terrence Malick. I'll check out some of his work. Thanks man.

[@rubiksweekly]

+Teralek Eh, Shane Carruth would knock it out of the fucking park if he was ever given a proper budget.

[@Teralek]

+Glue Compressor anyone but Nolan! please! no short scenes! no funny camera angles, no roller coaster flick. every Nolan film is like a rollercoaster trip

[@FranciscoAlves-om2kj]

I must see his movies. But who can replace the genius that was Rubrick?

[@Robeykr]

Clarke's FINAL ODYSSEY. With all the hope and mystery of the first two books, he gave us this nihilist ending. I was very disappointed by this one.

[@tiplady44]

Book ,utter rubbish,lost the original plot 🤔

[@ANDROLOMA]

Maybe the end of it all is nihilism? May I recommend something more unreal, like Star Wars?

[@tiplady44]

@@ANDROLOMA Star Wars 🤔YUK

[@ANDROLOMA]

@@tiplady44 Agreed.

[@thealexmamoyand6946]

ooooo nooooooooooooooo