2010: The Year We Make Contact

Science fiction films, at least those with plots set in fixed points of future time, run risk of looking obsolete when their fictional visions fail to resemble reality. This is fate that was mostly evaded by *2001: A Space Odyssey*, undisputed genre classic and one of the best films ever made, even when it became obvious that real life 2001 would look very different from the one depicted in Kubrick’s masterpiece. Hi…

Source English Español Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest scifi writers of all time, and the story that can be considered as his masterpiece is 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is the first of a 4 part series of books, telling the story of humanity since we were monkey-like beings to a space-faring species. I will provide a quick summary of the first film in order to properly discuss the second one. At the beginning…