It's been so long and the book was so unmemorable...I think they were produced by some ancient civilization that sent them out to seek out potential intelligent life in the galaxy and ensure that it makes the leap to intelligence. Something like that.
That review is dead on btw. It blows my mind that anyone would consider making a movie out of it.
It blows my mind that anyone would consider making a movie out of it.
As I mentioned above, nobody is making a movie out of Clarke's book. A movie is merely coming, which happens to have the tentative title 3001; otherwise it has no connection with the book *at all*.
It sucks that humanity never meets the creators of those gene therapy hershey bars. The one mystery that drove the whole thing never becomes anything. Zzzz