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They didn't know how to end it. Only that Dave was to take the next step in evolution. For more background on the aliens/Clindar, there's a book called "The Los
by hindsightbias 9y ago
They didn't know how to end it. Only that Dave was to take the next step in evolution. For more background on the aliens/Clindar, there's a book called "The Lost Worlds of 2001"
“And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the field of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.”
- valuearb 9y agoThat’s not the meaning of the end. If it was, Kubrick could have said so. Clarkes book is NOT the film, Kubrick wanted more ambiguity, because the film and topic deserves it.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Asimovs book is NOT the film Asimov wrote a lot of books [0], but none of them have been associated with the film in this thread. I think you mean “Clarke” rather than “Asimov”. [0] like, a truly stupendous quantity of them that is hard to believe a single person could put out in a lifetime.
- valuearb 9y agoArrgggg! i’ve written Asimov three times by mistake. I’m ashamed:(