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From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, HAL 9000!
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In article <5bid19$ub@info.aom.ericsson.se> qhsarno@aom.ericsson.se writes:
>>...Incidently, wasn't the book written while the film was
>>in production?
>
>Yes, it was. They co-wrote the script, which Clarke also translated into a book.

Uh, references?  "The Lost Worlds of 2001" says that the first draft of
the book was completed before the end of 1964 (as a joint effort), because
Kubrick couldn't get funding, let alone start production, without a novel
in hand to show to the studio.  The book came first, then the script, then
innumerable rewrites of both. 
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