Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

The Circe episode has figured in film adaptations of the Odyssey.

It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars.

Since July 2012, Odyssey has been back in full, nominal operation mode following three weeks of ' safe ' mode on remote maintenance.

The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer.

The Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War that is the subject of the Iliad, and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war.

Martin West has noted substantial parallels between the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey.

* Dante Alighieri has Odysseus append a new ending to the Odyssey in canto XXVI of the Inferno.

* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

* The film Pandorum has many story elements of the Odyssey.

* The film Ulysses ' Gaze ( 1995 ) directed by Theo Angelopoulos has many of the elements of the Odyssey set against the backdrop of the most recent and previous Balkan Wars.

There is a strong theme of homecoming ( nostos ) in the Odyssey, because Odysseus is on a journey home after the Trojan war has finally ended.

In the Odyssey ( v. 398 ), Poseidon has a home in Aegae.

The Cyclops of the Odyssey has been recast in the poet's pastoral style which idealized the simple lives of shepherds.

The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey.

Since the release of the film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1994, the instrument has enjoyed a resurgence in interest and has become more widely used by contemporary musicians.

In 1999, the reruns moved to Odyssey Network ( which was co-owned by Henson's company ), featuring new introductions by Brian Henson, until Odyssey shut down Henson's half of the channel in 2001 ; the show has not been seen on American television since.

The date is surmised from a passage in Homer's Odyssey, which reads, " The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world.

The island has indeed been identified by some scholars with Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians described in Homer's Odyssey, though conclusive and irrefutable evidence for this theory or for Ithaca's location have not been found.

Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in five more books, Deepsix ( 2001 ), Chindi ( 2002 ), Omega ( 2003 ), Odyssey ( 2006 ), and Cauldron ( 2007 ).

Galveston has several state-funded charter schools not affiliated with local school districts, including kindergarten through 8th grade Ambassadors Preparatory Academy and pre-kindergarten through 8th Grade Odyssey Academy.

Uematsu also works closely with Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker, and has composed the games in the Blue Dragon series, Lost Odyssey ( 2007 ), and Away Shuffle Dungeon ( 2008 ); he was also the composer of the cancelled game Cry On.

While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches ( the Odyssey ) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.

* Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, served with the RAF at Stratford-upon-Avon during the 1940s.

* In the book " Captain Blood: his Odyssey " ( Raphael Sabatini ), the title character served in the Dutch Navy under de Ruyter.

An originator of the concept now known as " technological singularity ," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Kaufman also served as executive in charge of locations for Saturday Night Fever, and was influential in choosing 2001 Odyssey as the nightclub in the film.

In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn contributed a story called " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ," about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001 ; the story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever.

Odyssey 5 is the brainchild of Manny Coto, who served as a script-writer and executive producer during the series run.

The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey ( Miramar Images, Inc., 1990 ) was the first effort by director and co-producer Jan Nickman which served as a demonstration of computer animation when the art-form was still in its relative infancy.

The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ) is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.

The three primary instruments Odyssey uses are the:

In Homer's heavily maritime Odyssey, Poseidon rather than Zeus is the primary mover of events.

** Although encounters between humanity and non-human intelligences serve as the primary theme in the series of novels by Arthur C. Clarke that began with 2001: A Space Odyssey, they also explore the irrationality produced by Cold War military secrecy.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

" Hence it often means the life of a man, as in Homer, where one's life ( aion ) is said to leave him or to consume away ( Iliad v. 685 ; Odyssey v. 160 ).

" Odyssey required me to settle on an ideal set of multilingual Beckett texts by means of which to portray the course of his life.

This means it is recognized as one of the most important venues in the world, competing with the Acer Arena in Australia ; the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, England ; The Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, and the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

About 85 % of images and other data from NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have reached Earth via communications relay by Odyssey.

Spirit and Opportunity use NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter as their main communications link between Mars and Earth.

The Odyssey flight team scrambled to recover the orbiter, but it remained in a safe state, not yet available to support relay communications.