The structure is destroyed in the process, and its fragments are found to be incomprehensible, being far more advanced than any human technology. Twenty years pass before the invisible shield is successfully breached, using atomic energy. The structure is found to have been placed on the Moon several billion years earlier, and it is not the product of any terrestrial or lunar civilization. He comes across a mysterious pyramidal structure, surrounded by an " invisible shield" which blocks all attempts to approach. The narrator, Wilson, is a veteran selenologist on an expedition to explore the lunar surface.
The story is set in 1996 (at the time of writing, several decades in the future).
It appears in the short story collections Expedition to Earth (1953), The Nine Billion Names of God (1967), and The Sentinel (1982), as well as in The Lost Worlds of 2001 (1972). Despite the story's initial failure, it ultimately changed the course of Clarke's career. It was first published in the magazine 10 Story Fantasy, in the Spring 1951 issue, under the title "Sentinel of Eternity". "The Sentinel" was written in 1948 for a BBC competition in which it failed to place. Its plot and ideas influenced the development of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its corresponding novel. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951. " The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C.
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