Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!waltt From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Discovery pods Message-ID: <5008@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:41:27 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.5008 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:41:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:49:11 EST References: <1738@zehntel.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.movies:5453 net.sf-lovers:5625 > > All of you people who claim that in the book 2001 Bowman retrieves > his pod by remote control after his "helmetless" re-entry must have > a different version of the book than I. The pod reference is in the book *2010*, not 2001. Strange, the book 2010 was a sequel to the movie 2001, not Clarke's book 2001. Hence, what is explained in the book 2010 is what happened in the first movie, not the first book. -- Walt