 During the planning stage of 2010, an email connection was provided  for Peter Hyams (in Hollywood) and Arthur C. Clarke (in Colombo, Sri  Lanka) so that Hyams could regularly consult with Clarke about how  to adapt the novel to the movie screen. In 1983/4, such an email  correspondence was practically unheard of outside the academic  community, and it was certainly the first for the film world. Edited  highlights of the emails were published as a book, "The Odyssey  File", in 1984.