[ArtDodger]

‘Clark originally had the event happening on Saturn’
Actually, Clarke's original story ‘The Sentinel’ took place on Earth's moon. Just a 5 page story but what a wallop at the end.

[MHGinTN]

I was referring to the celluloid version, 2001, which Clark was involved with in production.

[MHGinTN]

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This article is about the narrative. For the film, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (film). For the novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel).

2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction narrative, produced in 1968 as both a novel, written by Arthur C. Clarke, and a film, directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a part of Clarke's Space Odyssey series. Both the novel and the film are partially based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", written in 1948 as an entry in a BBC short story competition, and "Encounter in the Dawn", published in 1953 in the magazine Amazing Stories.