2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) becomes an immortal 'Star Child' that can live and travel in space. The Star Child then returns to Earth, where he detonates an orbiting nuclear warhead. This is not discussed again until the sequel to the book, "". "2001: A Space Odyssey" explores technological advancement: its promise and its danger. The HAL 9000 computer puts forward the troubles that can crop up when man builds machines, the inner workings of which he does not fully comprehend and therefore cannot fully control. The book explores the perils related to the atomic age. In this novel, the Cold War is apparently still
2001: A Space Odyssey had seen a demonstration of computer synthesis on an IBM 704 at Bell Labs in 1961. The rendition is gradually slowed down to a progressively lower sample rate, which then creates a strikingly electronic, distorted, "basso profundo". Arthur C. Clarke wrote the novel. He developed it concurrently with the film version and published it in 1968, after the film's release. "The Lost Worlds of 2001" (1972) elaborates on Clarke and Kubrick's collaboration. The novel has numerous differences from the film. Most notably, the setting for the part three (of four) in the book is not Jupiter, as in the film,