Reli recentemente o romance 2010 Odyssey Two por Arthur C Clarke pela primeira vez desde a adolescência (20 mais anos se você estiver interessado) e notou essa passagem
"Max" he said, in a tone of deadly seriousness, "whatever happens - please don't go chasing off after the ship's cat".
For a few milliseconds, Brailovsky was thrown off guard; he almost answered: "I do wish you hadn't said that Walter" but checked himself in time. That would have been too damning an admission to weakness; instead he replied "I'd like to meet the idiot who put that movie in our library".
"Katerina probably did it, to test everyone's psychological balance. Anyway, you laughed your head off when we screened it last week".
Brailovsky was silent; Curnow's remark was perfectly true. But that had been back in the familiar warmth and light of Leonov, among friends - not in a pitch-black freezing derelict, haunted by ghosts. No matter how rational one was, it was all too easy to imagine some implacable alien beast prowling these corridors, seeking whom it might devour.
A menção de corredores escuros e abandonados, em busca de um gato e, claro, de um alienígena implacável, aponta diretamente para esse ser sobre Ridley Scott. Alienígena. O livro foi publicado na 1982, muito depois que o filme chegou à consciência pública, novamente parece provável, mas estou curioso para saber se Clarke comentou sobre isso e confirmou que essa era sua referência. Não pode haver muitos outros filmes que se encaixariam nessa descrição.