"2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke
I watched the movie years ago, and hadn’t read the book. I wanted to read it, since I had read elsewhere that 2001 was a first contact story, of all things (I never would’ve guessed that from the movie – I knew the monolith was weird, but never connected the dots. The movie had a lot of weird). I’ve been really into first contact, aliens, star trek, transformers, and so on recently, so something a…