The Sentinel

...studio with Yes /Emerson, Lake & Palmer engineer Eddie Offord to record the album that would become The Sentinel ''. The plan was that ''The Sentinel would be a recorded version of The Atlantis Suite, an epic centrepiece of the band's live...

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...1948 to 1997, primarily by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two early short stories by Clarke may also be considered part of the series. "The Sentinel " - short story written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity"

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...based." He was quoted as saying, it is like comparing "an acorn to the resulting oak-tree ". The Sentinel was written in 1948 for a BBC competition (in which it failed to place) and was first published in the magazine 10 Story Fantasy in...

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...Birmingham Post, Burton Daily Mail, Century 106 (East Midlands), Coventry Evening Telegraph, Express & Star (Wolverhampton), Oxford Mail, The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent), Shropshire Star and Worcester Evening News. The panel was chaired by Roger...

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The Rockhurst Sentinel (or The Sentinel) is the official student newspaper of Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. The Sentinel has been published at Rockhurst since 1917. For a brief period during the 1990s, The Sentinel was...

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...Arthur C Clarke died in April, in his adopted home of Sri Lanka. He was 90. His greatest fame came in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His visions of space travel and computing sparked...

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...in astronomy as a young boy, he served as the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. In 1948 he wrote the story "The Sentinel," which would eventually form the basis for the "2001" film. He moved to Sri Lanka (then known as...

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...author who penned more than 80 books and 500 essays during his lifetime, including fiction and non-fiction. His 1951 short story The Sentinel became the foundation for 2001. Clarke was a futurist who seemed to live ahead of his time.

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...film that made him internationally famous. The screenplay for "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based on Mr. Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel," and Mr. Clarke simultaneously wrote the companion novel, which was released three months after...

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...early Wednesday morning at a hospital near his home in Sri Lanka, The Times reports. Most famous for expanding his short story "The Sentinel" into a novel and screenplay that served as the basis for Stanley's Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A...

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