Like so many great science fiction stories, it was conceived long before man had ventured into space. The narrator hypothesizes that this “sentinel” was left on the Moon as a “warning beacon” for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth. Clarke is famous for being the starting point of Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed “with the savage might of atomic power”. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.” The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The story deals with the discovery of an artifact on Earth’s Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The Sentinel: is there life out there Written only a few years after the nuclear bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki finished World War II, Arthur C.

He has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and he is the only science-fiction writer to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as “Sentinel of Eternity”, which was used as a starting point for the novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey. CLARKE (1917-2008) wrote the novel and co-authored the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Sentinel” is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C.

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