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- I also recommend the three books of A Time Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_Odyssey
- You might want to check out the Time Odyssey series. It was written by Arthur C Clarke (along with Stephen Baxter) and deals with similar themes.
- I enjoy both; 2010 is more an action piece wrapped with this period-specific visuals, coming also with burden of the real-world Cold War. While 2001 is a cinematic masterpiece that ended times of this naive pulp-scifi with its metal pointy rockets and damsel in distress tropes. The only thing I really really don't like the paint-psychodelic visual that Kubric used instead of Clarke's "Grand Central Station of the galaxy".
I really wish the remaining books would be turn into movies and so the Clarke-Baxter' A Time Odyssey series.
- Once again I'll mention "A Time Odyssey" series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter and to be exact, the second book in the series Sunstorm. In which Earth is preparing to mitigate - as much is possible, a massive solar eruption with megascale engineering projects. The major outer space idea is to reflect this eruption with a giant shield made of Fresnel lenses fully built in space and installed at Lagrange 1 point
- As others noted, there's a sequel film 2010. Both 2001 and 2010 are also novelized, and there are five additional books: 2061 and 3001 are "far in the future" sequels following some of the same characters (and the monoliths).
There are also three other novels under "A Time Odyssey". Separate story but with similarities <spoiler>mysterious outsiders and fascinating human-made AIs</spoiler.
- > at some point closer to the sun we could perhaps pull this angular "hack" to shade Earth using a smaller object?
A. C. Clarke and S. Baxter A Time Odyssey series 2nd book, "Sunstorm" focuses on destructive coronal mass ejection as main plot. One of the mankind solutions is a megaproject of shield modelled on Fresnel lens that is constructed on the Moon from regolith and shot up from electromagnetic slingshot in parts, which are then "mounted up" along with AI controlled mechanism in Lagrange point 1 in order to protect the planet.
It's of course a sci-fi portrayal of idea you mention and in this book humanity has a serious reason to build up this shield. As for reality, I can't tell if such structure build with current technology (a solar sail material most likely) would do anything - we doesn't seem to be bothered with global warming enough in first place.
