Author BiographyĬlarke was born on Novemin the town of Minehead in Somerset, England. The Sentinel is included in the 1983 short-story collection of the same name.

In both his science writing and his fiction, Clarke's goal was to prepare his audience for the coming space age. Clarke was already known to the general public as a popularizer of science throughout the 1950s and 1960s in the context of the space race through a series of nonfiction books and articles such as The Exploration of Space (1951) and Profiles in the Future (1962). Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel served as the basis on which the larger 2001 project was built. This process culminated in his collaboration with the film director Stanley Kubrick on the 1968 screenplay and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is acknowledged as one of the greatest films of any kind ever made, and in particular was the first science fiction to be taken seriously by the film industry and the community of mainstream film critics and historians. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov) in light of his long and distinguished career within the genre, and in particular his efforts in translating science fiction from a purely fan-based genre to the mainstream of cultural consciousness. Clarke is known among the science fiction fan community as a Grand Master (together with Robert A. Shortly, an unmissable short story.Sir Arthur C. Clarke is also a brilliant writer who knows how to use words with dexterity and subtlety, scattering his stories with a poesy touch. This success, Clarke, as good astrophysicist and satellite pioneer, owes to his very precise vision – since 1951! – that he had about the composition and the structure of the Moon, giving a very realistic dimension to his story.īut that’s not all because, besides the hard science side of his stories, Arthur C. But particularly, it serves for the Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, for which he developed the original idea and published the eponymous novel in 1968. Clarke and was published in many collection. This story is probably the most famous of Arthur C. What will happen next? Will we receive some visit? Especially as the recipient seems not to be very far… My opinion

While a scientific team was here to chart and study the Moon, a sparkling, which seems to be unnatural, on a far escarpment draws their attention.Īrriving on-site, their surprise is great to discover an artefact protected by a force field, which has to be leaved here by an extremely advanced civilization passing through our solar system millions or billions years ago.īut the most troubling is that barely discover, the object had begun to emit a signal.

Clarke’s short story was only published in 1951 in the magazine Story Fantasy under the title Sentinel of Eternity.

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