2001

This is another of those "read the short story, read the book, saw the movie" scenarios (like Flowers for Algernon) that I was fortunate enough to live through. They're ALL good - and for once, AC Clarke's characterisations were good enough not to be two-dimensional (probably thanks to Kubrick), and the storyline is profound enough that it carries you with it effortlessly. Still worth a read!

And if you haven't seen the film, you haven't lived. I fondly remember seeing the film in the old 20th Century Cinema in Lusaka, with one Stefano Capriulo in about 1973 – who hadn't read the book, so I got to explain everything to him in exquisite detail. I THINK we both enjoyed it…B-)