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From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, HAL 9000!
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In article <5bc05i$lcu@hole.sdsu.edu> etomlins@rohan.sdsu.edu (tomlinson) writes:
>Actually, _Kubrick's_ _2001_, which takes precedence over the
>Clarke/Kubrick novelized screenplay IMO, puts HAL's "birthday" in
>1992...

Actually, Clarke himself wrote at the time that neither the movie nor the
book is truly a derivative of the other -- they evolved in parallel.  The
intent, at Kubrick's own suggestion, was that the movie be derived from
the novel, so that the basic story line would be set without worrying
about the practical constraints of filming.  The first draft of the novel
preceded film and screenplay completely -- late 1964 -- because Kubrick
needed it to help sell the project to the studio.  The two diverged later;
notably, it is well-documented that the movie's location changed from
Saturn to Jupiter because of special-effects problems.

The fact that Clarke's follow-on novels followed the movie, rather than
the book, in certain respects is a separate issue. 
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