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Well, kinda, eventually. The book of 2001 points Discovery 1 at Iapetus, a moon of Saturn. Evidently, the special effects crew for the movie couldn't do a convi
by staplung 3y ago
Well, kinda, eventually. The book of 2001 points Discovery 1 at Iapetus, a moon of Saturn. Evidently, the special effects crew for the movie couldn't do a convincing job of faking Saturn because of the rings so they did Jupiter instead.
Then when Clarke did the book for 2010 he retcon'd it to match the movie.
- pndy 3y agoI'm pretty sure that Clarke stated somewhere in the preface that each story in the Space Odyssey series doesn't necessary happens in the same universe and thus that's why there's a difference between places in books Nevertheless, Jupiter as the biggest planet within our star system being forced to collapse into a small sun feel extremely right