Dearth of '2001: A Space Odyssey' fanfics

[Enola Straight]

2001 is one of my favorite movies, yet I could only find ONE fanfic based on it... a crossover with Space:1999 (also a few humorous spoofs, but that don't count).

Anyone know of some really good fanfics of 2001 out there?

[Stormbringer]

Read the books in the Odyssey Quartet by Arthur C Clarke. The quailty tapers off somewhat but they're still pretty good.

[Enola Straight]

Books?

I meant FANFICTION on the internet.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I woudn't want there to be any 2001 fanfiction.

[Stormbringer]

Books?

I meant FANFICTION on the internet.

Well, if you can't find fanfic trying cracking a book. You do know that there are books out there, right? And they're available at most publics libraries.

I don't think there are more then a dozen fanfics out there on the whole of the 'net. It doesn't have the high profile and ongoing conflict necessary to produce many fanfics.

[Uraniun235]

2001 is one of my favorite movies, yet I could only find ONE fanfic based on it... a crossover with Space:1999 (also a few humorous spoofs, but that don't count).

Anyone know of some really good fanfics of 2001 out there?

2001 is probably one of the most illsuited movies/books to ever make a fanfic out of.

Besides, why look for fanfiction (which is really hit and miss, unless you're really into reading amateur writing) when you can have the real deal as written by Arthur C. Clarke?

[HemlockGrey]

2001 is one of my favorite movies, yet I could only find ONE fanfic based on it...

NO! Really? Whyever could that be?

[Kuja]

How the hell could you base a fanfic on 2001? I mean, it's a good movie, but...HOW?

[Sokar]

2001 is far to, how to put it, comflictless and open ended (if we are going by the Kubrick movie and not the books). There are no evil aliens, no wars , no weapons actually of anykind are ever seen to my knowledge, and the 'villan' is a computer tortured into madness because of the limits and misconceptions of his human masters. Not very good fanfic material.........

[kmart]

It'd be easier to work in the 'lost' 2001 universe, using the rejected and partially developed storylines for the first films as presented in Clarke's THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001.

For years I've thought that Tom Hanks could do a FROM EARTH TO MOON followup by presenting a combination of those stories as 'how the solar system was won' (working joke title for 2001), doing stories like BREAKING STRAIN and some incidents from the early 2001 draft (like Whitehead's death in the pod) as standalone shows, but in a documentary style like FROM EARTH, a sort of faux dramatization of events. You could end the series with the monolith being dug up. I talked about this with a screenwriter I know, Pete Briggs (the Aliens Vs Predator guy), and he agrees it would be fun to play in that universe, but who else besides Hanks would have the pull to get it made (if even he could?)

Probably have to bump everything ahead fifty to 100 years, but that's okay -- even though I bought just about every minute of 2001 when I first saw it at age 7 in 68, and was convinced PanAm WOULD be offering commercial flights there, I don't think I ever believed we could build a moonbase that size in just a few decades.

[Enola Straight]

I was thinking how a crossover with DS9 would go: the concept of a whole galaxy-wide network of wormholes...with one wormhole around Jupiter and discovered by Dave Bowman, the Bajoran Prophets are the creators of the Monoliths, and 2010/2061/3001 do not exist.