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From: dave.ewen-@-circellar.com (dave ewen)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, HAL 9000!
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So what is the story here? The book says HAL came online in 1997 and
the movie says 1992 ???


>"Prof.Faust" <heretic@passport.ca> wrote:
>
>Man Friday wrote:
>> 
>	Also to help clear the confusion, if anyone cares to read the book 
>"The Making of 20001", I believe that they will find that Clarke says
>that he and Kubrick worked together on the project.  Kubrick would film
>scenes and Clarke would decide that tho they worked very well in a
>movie-setting, he could not use them in a novel.  Hence the
>descrepancies between book and movie.


