2001 A Space Odyssey. Based on the Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke. London: Hutchinson, 1968. First U.K. Edition. Pp, 224. Black cloth boards, title lettered in silver to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

The novelization of the screenplay of Kubrick’s Oscar winning 1968 film and a Science Fiction cornerstone. 

Arthur C. Clarke expanded on the screenplay’s ideas, providing deeper philosophical and scientific context, while the film revolutionised visual storytelling.

It redefined space opera, moving away from Flash Gordon-style adventure to contemplative, cerebral storytelling.