2001: A Space Odyssey (film) essay "Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick" wrote, "Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete." Others credit "2001" with opening up a market for films such as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Contact", and "Interstellar", proving that big-budget "serious" science-fiction films can be commercially successful, and establishing the "sci-fi blockbuster" as a Hollywood staple. Science magazine "Discover"s blogger Stephen Cass, discussing the film's considerable impact on subsequent science fiction, writes that "the balletic spacecraft scenes set to sweeping classical music, the tarantula-soft tones of HAL 9000, and the
Space Odyssey (TV series) written by American composer Don Davis, who wrote the music for the "Matrix" trilogy. BBC Books published a book written by Christopher Riley with the same title as the UK version of "Space Odyssey". It was based on the fictional diary entries of the ground staff and crew on "Pegasus", with supplementary factual information on the planets they visited and the real robotic missions which have explored them through history. It is illustrated with specially commissioned digital still images and screenshots taken from the drama. Space Odyssey (TV series) Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (released as Voyage to the