The fear behind Franco's power. They know what he did, but they don't know where he's gone. His job is to hunt down opponents of Franco's regime and destroy them. That is about to change. But there's no one left alive who knows about that Galindez' pursuit of the past has revealed a battle for the present But her perfect home quickly turns hellish. Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. October 30, History. An edition of The Sentinel This edition was published in by Berkley Books in New York.
Written in English — pages. From the Introduction I can only hope that everything that follows comes from the other ten percent. The Sentinel January 1, , I Books. Not in Library. Libraries near you: WorldCat. The Sentinel , ibooks, Inc.
The Sentinel August 29, , I Books. Your Comment:. Clarke Submitted by: Jane Kivik. Read Online Download. Clarke 2 Language: English Awards: Locus Award Nominee for Best Collection category: science fiction, fiction, short stories, science fiction fantasy, classics, anthologies, collections, anthologies, space, speculative fiction, fantasy Formats: ePUB Android , audible mp3, audiobook and kindle.
Clarke by Arthur C. Hot The Sentinel by Arthur C. Hot Living Nightmare by Shannon K. Butcher by Shannon K. Mar 26, Roxanne Tan added it. The story started with such details describing where they are and how close they are to the moon. The author described how challenging their expedition was and how they were able to go across.
He described how the ocean was once deep and now it is only deep about half mile. They had lived outside of Earth for quite some time and they get food deliveries often. Their cabin feels like home where they have regular meals like sausages.
While she was cooking breakfast, she saw the view from the horizon, a place where no one has dared to explore and she took that as a challenge to try and find out what is on the other side of where they are living. The mountain seems very high to climb but with the gravity is only a sixth of their normal value, they were able to climb easily. The suits they wore were pretty impressive because they were able to release heat from their body.
Garnett and her were able to climb up and see what was above. They initially thought there was nothing but there was something unique they saw. They discovered an artifact from the moon, a pyramid-like shaped and they were in awe. It meant someone else was there before him or her and probably knew they also exist. It took me a few times to read the short story to understand the moral of the story, and I am still unsure. For someone that is unfamiliar with science fiction, it is a challenge to break down a story.
Science fiction involves thinking and reflecting about what the author wants the readers to know. From what I gather, the take away of the story is we are never alone. There is someone out there watching us and we should always be careful about what we do.
For Wilson, the challenge to keep looking what is out there, see for yourself, and not to settle for less.
It reminds me of the novel, The Martian, it is similar where he was left in another planet and was forced to live there alone and learn how to survive prior to his team rescuing him back. Then I felt a great lifting of my heart, and a strange, in-expressible joy.
For I loved the Moon, and now I knew that the creeping moss of Aristarchus and Eratosthenes was not the only life she had brought forth in her youth. The old, discredited dream of the first explorers was true.
There had, after all, been a lunar civilization-and I was the first to find it. That I had come perhaps a hundred million years too late did "Probably no emotion at all filled my mind in those first few seconds. That I had come perhaps a hundred million years too late did not distress me; it was enough to have come at all.
My mind was beginning to function normally, to analyze and to ask questions. Was this a building, a shrine - or something for which my language had no name? If building, then why was it erected in so uniquely inaccessible a spot? I wondered if it might be a temple, and I could picture the adepts of some strange priest-hood calling on their gods to preserve them as the life of the Moon ebbed with the dying oceans, and calling on their gods in vain.
This novella became the movie : a space odyssey. Which it self became a precursor and inspiration for great sf movies to come including Star Wars. A mostly excellent collection of short stories. Clouds of Jupiter stands above the rest but nearly all are excellent. Sep 01, Adam rated it really liked it Shelves: short-stories , science-fiction , audio-books. Very cool short story about a beacon being left on the moon by an ancient higher intelligence.
Short and sweet with a decent buildup and an ending that makes you wish for more. Luckily, this story is expanded upon, sort of, in A Space Odyssey, which is a more detailed and superior work scaffolded upon this story. This collection of short stories is typical Arthur C Clarke — it has some amazing concepts in it, and his passion for science and astronomy really comes through in every one.
I really enjoyed reading them, even if the characters are, as usual with him, pretty bland and interchangeable. The Sentinel — I guess you could call this a spark behind , althoug This collection of short stories is typical Arthur C Clarke — it has some amazing concepts in it, and his passion for science and astronomy really comes through in every one.
The Sentinel — I guess you could call this a spark behind , although the circumstances in are pretty different and have some wider implications. This was still my favourite story in the collection. Breaking Strain — This really surprised me. To start with, the characters felt much more rounded and emotional than the kind of deadpan ones that usually populate his fiction. That created a lot of intriguing tension between the two stranded astronauts, about to run out of supplies and oxygen.
That in itself is a concept with lots of mileage and I felt an entire novel could have been built out of it. I did also like the sort of twist at the end.
A Meeting with Medusa — Not all that much going on here, but his descriptions of Jupiter are brilliant and echo some of the later chapters of That was a really good, exciting scene, and had some really intriguing implications for the lead character becoming half-man, half-machine. I thought that framed the discovery of extraterrestrial life in a really interesting way. I loved the introduction and description of the satellite-sized space ship and the ideas about an extraterrestrial culture with an art museum.
Refugee — Nice to see Arthur C Clarke writing about his birth place of Britain, and our place in a future space age. I felt the actual reveal itself was interesting and subverted a lot of tropes, but after that, it kind of lost steam until the ending, so it was good to read another version of the events up until that moment. There was some character study within it which was good — with the solitude of the pilot in his ship, and the ending was a pretty nice touch too.
Songs of Distant Earth — Not much but a couple of pages which outline his novel, Songs of Distant Earth, and a possible screenplay.
Rescue Party — This one came across kind of gimmicky. Although I did like the idea of the party visiting an earth in the distant future and seeing what has become of it.
Jul 14, Michael Clemens rated it liked it. Clarke's stories survived their Golden Age origins by being focused more on the humans than the gee-whiz technology of the time. There's fwere hints of the casual sexism and anachronistic vacuum-tube computers here, and Clarke always tempered his writing with some hard science, or at least enough to be convincing.
I've enjoyed his work in novel form, and these stories are equally enjoyable. The edition I bought contains Lebbeus Woods' illustrations -- a majoy selling point for me. I know him thr Clarke's stories survived their Golden Age origins by being focused more on the humans than the gee-whiz technology of the time.
I know him through his imaginative architectural renderings, so seeing his carefully penciled human figures brings softens the typical corrupted and decayed structures that first got me interested in his work.
Sep 07, Bill S. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. A collection of some of Clarke's best works. In this volume, he deals almost exclusively with space travel, and he keeps it all in the boundaries of theoretical science. His genius lay in his ability to do this while writing with a powerful and descriptive narrative voice. He also had a great talent for endings.
Of the nine stories, 7 are outstanding: "Rescue Party" - Clarke's first story accepted for publication. A space ship races to Earth to save the inhabitants from the sun which is about to supernova, only to find it empty of life. While the aliens feel they are far superior, they almost get trapped on a subway system they don't understand and when they follow the trajectory of a radio wave coming from the Earth they find that the humans have created the largest armada ever and have fled.
The story ends with the comment, nobody would be laughing in twenty years. This takes the reader up to the partial reveal to the UN Secretary General and makes no statement as to what the ultimate goal of the overlords will be.
Too bad I already read the novel. I knew the ending. This is about the discovery of the device on the Moon. In this story, it is a pyramid surrounded by a force that only nuclear technology could get through. Thus, it is a detection system that has alerted the aliens that mankind has advanced, can travel in space, and has nuclear technology.
The impact is lessened since we all know the ending of this short story. I wish that I had read it when it first came out. Clarke gets at the reality of space travel in this story in which a cargo ships oxygen supply is damaged. No, you can't just send up a rescue ship or plant seeds to create oxygen or jerry-rig some new device to make oxygen. In this case, they have only 20 days of O2 left for the two crewmen and they are 30 days out.
Do the math. If one dies, one will survive. The twist of the story is that one decides to murder the other only to be foiled. The almost victim then surprisingly offers to draw cards to see who should commit suicide. So he can feel better about himself as a person. Of course, it is not perfectly clear that this is actually what went down.
The survivor states that he had his story down. A race of aliens had left remains on Mars and Venus from 5 million years ago. Every scientist thinks they came from our solar system but one. His proof is Jupiter V which is in reality a giant space ship. This is what would have been required to transport a species from one star system to another. Many generations would have to live on a transport. Once completed, they set it in orbit around Jupiter should they ever need it again.
Since there is no friction in space this means that ships with giant sails could catch this pressure and slowly gain speed to fantastic levels. Clarke imagines a regatta race of space craft that gets cut short due to a sun burst which would overpower the fleet with radiation.
0コメント