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Diego Seo material_veteran — Just started this. It's actually very good, crime-thriller with an interesting twist.

Brian Duenas bduenas0cba — Arthur C. Clarke, the man responsible for the "monolith"-- that oblong, perfectly proportioned (1:4:9) black object found on the Moon in "2001"--goes back to the inspiration for that story, "The Sentinel," collected in an anthology of his early short fiction. Combing through his ouevre, the author collects together work from the 40s, 50s, 60s, as well as a story treatment for a screenplay, "The Songs of Distant Earth," which he submitted to his "2001" collaborator, Stanley Kubrick, who apparently returned the manuscript with a wan, "Interesting..." Mr. Clarke briefly introduces each of the short stories with a personal reminiscence (this anthology was published in 1983). His most interesting observation is his distinction between "sci-fi" and "fantasy." At the close of the 70s, "Star Wars," "Star Trek" and "Close Encounters" ruled the roost, but ACC points out that these were "fantasies" as there is no (or relatively little) possibility of their ever being factually possible. What ACC traffics in, then, is pure sci-fi, with an emphasis on both the "sci" and the "fi," his stories are only slight exaggerations of the possibilities already open to us. That said, many of the stories here are "fantastic." The elegiac "Rescue Party" concerns an alien race who rush to save the last remnants of humans before the Sun goes nova. "Guardian Angel" (the basis for which became his novel "Childhood's End") shows man being ruled by the "Overlords" from space, who never show themselves, though we are given an eerie clue as to their identity in the final sentence. The best sci-fi shines a light on human nature, not space. In "Breaking Strain," a leaking oxygen tank aboard a space tanker dooms its two-man crew: One of the men must either commit suicide or murder the other or both will asphyxiate in the low-oxygen environment. It's an absolutely excruciating ordeal that shines a light on the oldest problem of humanity: A shortage of resources turns men into savages. And of course, there is "The Sentinel" itself, in which lunar explorers discover a pyramid (the precursor to the monolith) on the surface of the Moon, a clear indication of extraterrestrial intelligence. ACC himself said that "The Sentinel" was only the "seed" for "2001" rather than "2001" being an expansion thereof. What is fascinating about reading Clarke's short fiction (some of which is 60 years old!) is how pertinent it still seems as well as how perfectly he predicted many of the developments that became science fact. Still active at the age of 90, Mr. Clarke retains his footing as one of the 20th century's great sci-fi authors, relevant six years after the year he and Stanley Kubrick made famous. Some of the prose itself is clunky (one or two of the stories are actually boring), but "The Sentinel" is a pleasant peek behind the curtain of one of our most valued "non-fantasy" authors.

Muhammad Ihsan ihsound — Ein Krimi in bester skandinavischer Tadition. Für Interessenten des nordischen Genres ein unbedingtes Muß.

Alejandra Morales _lmotr — A strange and interesting cast of characters, fun story, and some interesting history!