2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) March 1966, MGM became concerned about "2001"'s progress and Kubrick put together a show reel of footage to the ad hoc soundtrack of classical recordings. The studio bosses were delighted with the results and Kubrick decided to use these "guide pieces" as the final musical soundtrack, and he abandoned North's score. In an interview with Michel Ciment, Kubrick explained: 2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the , released in 1968. The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in
Space Odyssey be too expensive, so the voyage in the film is to Jupiter instead. The second book, "2010", retcons the storyline of the first book to make the destination Jupiter as seen in the film. Clarke stated that the "Time Odyssey" novels are an "orthoquel" (a neologism coined by Clarke for this purpose, combining the word "sequel" with "ortho-", the Greek prefix meaning "straight" or "perpendicular", and alluding to the fact that time is orthogonal to space in relativity theory) to the "Space Odyssey" series. Space Odyssey The "Space Odyssey" series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer