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<<< Sure was, but in a heavily altered state. It was adapted by Clarke to be
made into the film by Kubrick. If you haven't read the book version of 2001,
I suggest you do so. While I'm a voracious fan of Stanley Kubrick, and he
did an awesome job with 2001, he varied greatly from Clarke's final book
when he made the film.
In the book form, Clarke spends a lot of time taking the reader through
the alien's seeding and monitoring process, starting right from the
beginning, the Dawn of Man, as it were.>>>
of course, the thought that Mr. Clarke doesn't really like human beings also sometimes intrudes on the reader. *ryuu trying hard not to flame Mr. Clarke -- chuckle --- ok, interesting concepts but not my favorite author <g> so very glad he didn't write for UFO. the aliens woulda won --- annoying thot that <g>*
<<< Wouldn't it have been interesting plot twist if Straker & Co. found out
that we here on earth were just a cattle farm origionally set up by the
aliens specifically for their purpose?
We just happened to grow up a bit after some form of "forced abscence" of
theirs, home planet crisis perhaps?
They come back, thousands of years later, finding out we're not quite as
easy pickings as they'd last left us.>>>>
I've read this. Larry Niven, World of Ptavvs. *snerk* the humans still won <g> (ok, the thrint never actually got loose, but the surmise was that the "whitebreads" the thrintun seeded worlds with eventually became intelligent humans -- i am so not gonna address where the unintelligent ones came from <g> it would have made an interesting episode to have SHADO discover a way to communicate with a millennia old alien and discovered just this problem. of course, the current crop of aliens are just other seededs who discovered us first <g> )
<<<Nyah I like the old premise better.....>>
*chuckle* i agree
ryuu
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