Tag: Stanley Kubrick

Black stone monolith in ancient jungle, portal or a sign of civilisation. Generative AI

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Gary Varner
Date
December 13, 2025

Categorized
Science Fiction

Tagged
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Featured, Hard vs soft magic, Sentinel (short story), Stanley Kubrick}

Space Odyssey 2001: Decisions To Make About That Monolith

_{In Part 2 of my series on the sci-fi great, I want to consider where the Monolith fits in the hard vs. soft magic systems that make for sci-fi stories} _{Gary Varner
December 13, 2025

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Letting the question of who sent the monolith remain a mystery was probably a wise dramatic choice on the part of the writers. Read More ›

nature photograph of tall, skinny vantablack monolith on a flat glacier AI-Generated

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Gary Varner
Date
December 6, 2025

Categorized
Science Fiction

Tagged
2001: A Space Odyssey, Featured, Stanley Kubrick}

2001: A Space Odyssey Was a New Type of Science Fiction

_{The film is perhaps best understood as three completely different stories whose only connection is the monolith} _{Gary Varner
December 6, 2025

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Science Fiction}

The greatest measure of a film’s success is the test of time. Something about this film works even though it breaks conventions. Read More ›