The novel also inspired an album by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1994. Finally in 1986, a full-length novel version was published. an outline several pages long) for a film version, which didn't end up being made on account of Clarke's refusal to write the screenplay (although the film outline did in fact inspire the writing of 2010: Odyssey Two). In the late 1970s, Clarke wrote a treatment (i.e. The original short story version was published in 1958, in the collection The Other Side of the Sky. Each version tells the same basic story: a mighty "ark" ship, fleeing from the remains of the destroyed Earth on its long sub-light-speed journey to its eventual destination with most of the survivors of the human race in hibernation, arrives at a Lost Colony on the mostly-ocean planet Thalassa (or "Oceana" in one version) in order to refuel and repair their shield the visiting astronauts profoundly affect the peaceful island existence of the human inhabitants of Thalassa/Oceana, and vice versa. Clarke - a short story, a film treatment and a full-length novel. The name of three different versions of a story by Arthur C.
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