2001

Suzanne L. (United States of America)
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  1. space age
    the age beginning with the first space travel
    The book, which was released a few months after the movie, fills in many details left unsettled in the movie.

    2001 was written at the very beginning of the space age, before man first set foot on the moon in 1969.
  2. Stanley Kubrick
    United States filmmaker (born in 1928)
    Its author, Arthur C. Clarke, based the novel on a screenplay he wrote in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick in 1964.
  3. the other way around
    with the order reversed
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    2001: A Space Odyssey has the distinction of being one of only a few classic books to be based on a movie, rather than the other way around.
  4. Kubrick
    United States filmmaker (born in 1928)
    Its author, Arthur C. Clarke, based the novel on a screenplay he wrote in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick in 1964.
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