FilmClub: 27 de feberer a les 19 h a la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia.BookClub: 28 de febrer a les 19 h a la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia.
Excerpt of an article in The Guardian (11/26/2000):
He made his fortune from seeing into the future, and his fame from getting it right. He's written more than 60 books, and sold more than 50 million copies of them. He's been nominated for both an Oscar and the Nobel Prize, and won countless other awards. The world's best selling science-fiction writer now has just one more ambition left. And he only has to wait a few more weeks till he achieves it.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke has long nurtured the aspiration to see in the year that made him a household name: 2001. 'I want to exercise to keep my strength up so I can make it through the year 2001 - this is my real aspiration now,' he said in 1995. In three weeks he turns 83, and two weeks after that the world turns 2001.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke has long nurtured the aspiration to see in the year that made him a household name: 2001. 'I want to exercise to keep my strength up so I can make it through the year 2001 - this is my real aspiration now,' he said in 1995. In three weeks he turns 83, and two weeks after that the world turns 2001.
He has good reason to want to see the year in. Confined to a wheelchair by post-polio syndrome, and having difficulty travelling from his technopolis compound in Sri Lanka, 2001 won't be a space odyssey for him, more an odyssey of the ego. For a man who impresses on his visitors his boundless but remarkably inoffensive love of adulation, next year will be almost an ante-chamber to heaven. Celebrations of the film and book 2001: A Space Odyssey, are set to explode across the planet.Read the rest here.
Read “The Sentinel”, the story that originated the book and film, here.
The FilmDirector
- Stanley Kubrick
Cast
- Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman
- Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole
- William Sylvester as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
- Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000
- Daniel Richter as the chief man-ape Moon-Watcher
- Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
- Margaret Tyzack as Elena
- Robert Beatty as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Other books by the same author that you can find in English at the Public Libraries of Catalonia (link):
- The City and the Stars
- Of Time and Stars
- Songs of Distant Earth
- Tales of Ten Worlds
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