Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 science fiction novel — written simultaneously with Stanley Kubrick's film — about humanity's evolutionary encounter with alien intelligence through the monolith — the most philosophically ambitious science fiction novel.
Creates the philosophical hard SF novel at maximum ambition — 2001's structure (prehistoric encounter with alien intelligence; HAL 9000's breakdown; Bowman's transformation) spans evolutionary time and uses science fiction to address the largest possible questions about consciousness, technology, and evolution.
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