Jerome Agel, ed. The Making of Kubrick's 2001. New York: Signet, 1970. Responses to the film, as well as some discussion of the filming.

Piers Bizony. 2001: Filming the Future. London, UK: Aurum Press, 1994. This beautiful large-format book is the product of many years of devoted research. It gives the entire history of the film and is full of original art work, engineering drawings, and stills taken during production, most of which have never appeared before.

Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. London: Hutchinson/Star, 1968. A novel based on the original screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.

Arthur C. Clarke. The Lost Worlds of 2001. New York: New American Library, 1972. Clarke's view of the writing of the script, the later novel, and alternative chapters, plots, and so on.

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. The sequel to 2001 , explains several issues in the first novel and the film.

Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing: The Enigma. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. The definitive biography of one of the deepest thinkers at the dawn of the modern computer age.

Neil McAleer. Odyssey: The Authorized Biography of Arthur C. Clarke. London: Victor Gollancz, 1992.

Operating Manual for the HAL 9000 Computer: Revised Edition. Oakland, Calif.: Miskatonic University Press, 2010. This edition, essential for all surviving users of this versatile machine, advises the fitting of small explosive charges at key points in the mainframe.