Notes
The Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke, a collection of material relating to the film.

Contains Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel, extracts of earlier versions of the novel plus commentary and alternate or discarded material not used for the film or the novel.

The Sentinel was used as a starting point for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it was modified and fused with other ideas including another short story, Encounter in the Dawn.

Also published as Sentinel of Eternity.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1980 printing of the Sidgwick & Jackson / New English Library paperback edition, ISBN 0283986115. Cover illustration by Bruce Pennington.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
The ultimate trip started with a story called 'The Sentinel' by Arthur C. Clarke. It took flight when Stanley Kubrick asked Clarke to write a novel of space exploration. The result was one of the most extraordinary films of all time.

Now for the first time, the reader is taken on every stage of this great adventure. Here is the original story: and the interplay between two brilliantly charged imaginations.

This is Arthur C. Clarke’s own intimate account of the unique chemistry between author and director which created 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY.