Get closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies.

This behind-the-scenes spectacular of2OO1: Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts andmasterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, who together revolutionized science fiction and the art of cinema.

Previously available as part of the multi-volume and instant sell-out Collector's Edition, this comprehensive visual record includeson and off set photographs, pre-production paintings, and conceptual designsfrom the Kubrick archives. With numerous fold-outs, these dazzling images offer insight both into Kubrick's meticulous directorial methods, and into themysteries and magnetism of a film at once vast in scope and intricate in its exploration of our relationship to technology.

Written and researched over several years by the outer space, special effects, and technology journalist Piers Bizony, this compendium is both an exhaustive labour of love and amonument to a masterpiece of 20th century culture. "