Notes
The Making of Kubrick's 2001 edited by Jerome Agel, a collection of material relating to the film.

Contains Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel plus interviews, reviews and more.

The Sentinel was used as a starting point for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it was modified and fused with other ideas including another short story, Encounter in the Dawn.

Also published as Sentinel of Eternity.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 4th printing of the 1970 Signet / New American Library paperback edition, Publisher’s Code W4205. Cover photographs from the MGM film.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
The critics loved it
The critics hated it

THE MAKING OF KUBRICK’S 2001 takes you behind the sets and scenes of the most controversial film of the decade. Here is the inside story of a monumental achievement conceded even by its enemies to mark a turning point in the art of the cinema.

"If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."
- Stanley Kubrick

THE MAKING OF KUBRICK’S 2001
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
ABOUT THAT MONOLITH
THE STAR-CHILD
ROOM AT THE END
ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S ORIGINAL STORY, THE SENTINEL
INTERVIEWS WITH SCIENTISTS AND THEOLOGIANS
PROFILES OF STANLEY KUBRICK
WORLD REACTIONS
DESIGNING SPECIAL EFFECTS
LETTERS TO KUBRICK
SCENES YOU NEVER SAW
MEET THE REAL HAL