2001: A Space Odyssey

　　The bestselling classic-now in trade paperback with an introduction by the author and a dazzling new package.

　　The classic science-fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars-and ourselves. Author Biography: Sir Arthur C. Clarke has over twenty million copies of his books in print, including three million of 2001, and has won every imaginable science fiction award, including the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986. A former radar officer for the RAF, he invented the Communication Satellite, garnering him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1998 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for Services to Literature.

　　一九六八年，《二○○一：太空漫遊》的電影和小說分別問世，各自奠定了在影史與小說史上的地位。庫布利克和克拉克的原始創作目的，是「一個故事，可以在將來對照著已經發生的事情，不覺過時，也不覺荒誕（荒誕比過時更糟糕）。」將近三十多年歲月過去，時間給他們的作品作了最好的見證。然而，正如談到電影，大家總會說是「庫布利克的《二○○一》」，談到小說，大家會說是「克拉克的《二○○一》」。事實上，《二○○一：太空漫遊》的電影與小說，固然有其共通的背景，但卻各自具有不同的生命，是完全不同的個體，分別代表了影像與文字兩種不同語言的創作特質與極致。《二○○一》問世三十三年後，在二○○一年，正式授權的中文版《二○○一》由台灣商務出版。