2001 a space odyssey Author:Author C. Clarke This appears to be one of the originals printed in 1968. There is no ISBN or barcode. As a fan of the movie, this book is excellent and one of the best sci-fi books I've read to date. It provided a lot of answers and in depth details that the movie lacks. There isn't a description on the back of the book, but there is one on the first page: — "Yo... more »u are commander of Discovery, a spacecraft traveling at a hundred thousand miles and hour. Your destination is a planet on the farthest edge of the Solar System. Your companions are a fellow navigator, three deep freeze hibernauts, and Hal, a chatty computer who ceaselessly guides your course and your life. The mission you undertake through the abyss of space has been set off by a shrieking slab found within the Moon's crater Clavius. There is no possibility that this strange monolith is a natural formation. It is a deliberate buried calling card, left by an alien Intelligence millions of years ago. And you must find it, wherever, whatever, it is."« less