If you are looking for new, secondhand or out-of-print books then AbeBooks UK may be able to help.Īlternatively, you can search and order through. New Worlds Science Fiction, edited by John Carnell, Vol.8, No.22, April 1954, Nova Publications, London, Paperback/Magazine.

What would happen now that its alarm was silenced. This short story was used as a starting point for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it was modified and fused with other ideas including another short story, Encounter in the Dawn.īefore there were men on Earth, that signal-sending pyramid had stood alone on a lifeless moon. The text includes an illustration by an uncredited artist on page 41. While this was well known, it occurred to Clarke that if three satellites evenly spaced around the Earth were put in this orbit, they would be able to see each other as well as one third of the surface of the Earth and so could instantly transmit radio signals from one area of the Earth to any other.Sentinel of Eternity, a short story by Arthur C. During the war Clarke considered the fact that a satellite orbiting the Earth at a distance of 23,336 miles (now called the Clarke orbit in his honor) would have an orbital period equal to one day and so remain stationary over the same position on Earth. During World War II Clarke became an instructor in the operation of the new technology of radar for Royal Air Force personnel (a reflected in his 1963 novel, Glide Path). As a teenager he took up the hobby of astronomy and became a devotee or fan of the emerging literature of science fiction as it developed in the pulp magazines of the 1930s. 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. 1983 Berkley Books publishers, New York Book Club Edition hardbound in wheat boards with bold black lettering along spine. 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.

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