"The Sentinel," by Arthur C. Clarke
Hi all!
I'm going to try to read one short story a week -- after talekyn started this community, I checked out my bookshelves and found quite a few anthologies that really deserve better than the thin layer of dust they're currently wearing. My first story is Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel," from a collection of the same name.
"The Sentinel" originally appeared in The Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader in 1951. It is a story about an alien artifact uncovered on the Moon, and the premise of the story eventually became the Stanley Kubrick/Arthur C. Clarke collaboration "2001: A Space Odyssey." The "Odyssey" books were one of the first things I became obsessed with -- other than the original one (I wasn't born yet) I more or less read them as they were released. I remember sitting in grade school reading 2010, sitting in junior high reading 2069, etc...
I've read "The Sentinel" a few times, but thought it'd be a good place to start. Also, if anyone's interested, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter have a new series of books that continue to explore the ideas in the original "Space Odyssey."
I'm going to try to read one short story a week -- after talekyn started this community, I checked out my bookshelves and found quite a few anthologies that really deserve better than the thin layer of dust they're currently wearing. My first story is Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel," from a collection of the same name.
"The Sentinel" originally appeared in The Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader in 1951. It is a story about an alien artifact uncovered on the Moon, and the premise of the story eventually became the Stanley Kubrick/Arthur C. Clarke collaboration "2001: A Space Odyssey." The "Odyssey" books were one of the first things I became obsessed with -- other than the original one (I wasn't born yet) I more or less read them as they were released. I remember sitting in grade school reading 2010, sitting in junior high reading 2069, etc...
I've read "The Sentinel" a few times, but thought it'd be a good place to start. Also, if anyone's interested, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter have a new series of books that continue to explore the ideas in the original "Space Odyssey."