Flowers for HAL 9000

Earliest known poster for Flowers for HAL 9000.

Flowers for HAL 9000 is a short science fiction story by Daniel Keyes and Arthur C. Clarke about an artificial which undergoes radical reprogramming to increase its intelligence.

In the News

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  As I Lay Rebooting is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by HAL 9000, as told to American author William Faulkner.

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  Flubber for Algernon is a science fiction buddy thriller film directed by Jon Turteltaub and Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams and John Travolta.

Fiction cross-reference

• Flubber for Algernon
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Categories

• Category:Books
• Category:Films

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category:2001: A Space Odyssey (nonfiction)
• Category:Flowers for Algernon (nonfiction)

External links

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) @ Wikipedia
• 2001: a Space Odyssey - Original Theatrical Trailer @ YouTube
• The Dawn of Man @ YouTube
• Ape Learning @ YouTube
• The bone as a weapon @ YouTube
• Greatest Fight Scene @ YouTube
• HAL 9000 Introduction from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) @ YouTube
• 'The Blue Danube' (waltz) scene @ YouTube
• Videophone Sequence @ YouTube
• HAL 9000 Introduction @ YouTube - "The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information" ... "so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
• A conversation with HAL @ YouTube
• The Monolith At The Moon @ YouTube
• Hal Reads Lips Scene (2/6) | Movieclips @ YouTube
• Hal's Watching @ YouTube
• HAL kills Dave Pool @ YouTube
• Open the Pod bay doors, please, HAL. @ YouTube
• 2001: A Space Odyssey | Terminating the Hal 9000 | Full Scene @ YouTube
• Explosive bolts @ YouTube
• Dave Goes to Deactivate and kill HAL 9000 @ YouTube
• Take a stress pill and think things over @ YouTube
• The Shutdown Of Hal @ YouTube
• I'm afraid @ YouTube
• Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite Part I @ YouTube
• Ending @ YouTube
• Star Child Scene @ YouTube
• Star Child Scene @ YouTube

• Food in Movies: 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2001: A Space Odyssey in tweets @ Twitter
• Quotes @ IMDB
• Flowers for Algernon @ Wikipedia

Social media

• [ Post] @ Twitter (2 September 2025)