{"product_id":"the-sentinel-paperback","title":"The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction Paperback Book","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Sentinel – Arthur C. Clarke’s influential collection of short science fiction, bringing together decades of ideas that helped define the modern genre, presented in this paperback edition.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA thoughtful and quietly powerful collection of stories, marked by scientific curiosity, restraint, and a deep sense of wonder at humanity’s place in the universe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for inspiring \u003cem\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, the title story of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/strong\u003e begins with a simple but unsettling idea: an ancient alien artefact left on the Moon, waiting silently for humanity to reach it. 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