Just in case: the Atomic Rockets web site I cited isn't the same one as the unnamed one I labeled as the 2001 script site. I first found the script, perhaps as you say the actual novel, then found that excerpt from the script/novel plus diagrams at Atomic Rockets -- which indeed does credit its sources. I'll leave it up to Clarke to determine whether it is a steal.

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