The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. Narrated by Siddig El Fadil. Copyright 1995 by Dove Audio. Wow - almost 50K views! Thanks for listening!
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@peterbugg394311 ай бұрын
best narration of this wonderful story -thank you
@louisbrugnoni12915 жыл бұрын
These are amazing! So much better than tv or movies! Causes your mind to explode with images! 👍👍👍👍
@mikeshea3984 жыл бұрын
Same! Well said. I just closed my eyes and imagined.
@jrh50673 жыл бұрын
Myths, legends, gods and monsters. All came to be about today due to the power of imagination when stories were told. Way way way before tv, radio and the internet.
@jrcadet46 жыл бұрын
Just attended a 50th anniversary showing of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY yesterday. I've loved Clarke's other writing since I was a teenager, and especially 'The Sentinel'...so glad to find this here!
@nuru6663 жыл бұрын
I've wanted to read or hear this story since I found out about it about a decade ago!
@AlanMedina31410 жыл бұрын
This story was a gem and the narrator was perfect for it. This story is an example of a great mind Arthur C Clarke and a transcendental question of life in the universe. The story was a beautiful interpretation of the desire by sentient beings to alleviate the loneliness that comes from being truly alone in an ocean of infinity.A truly noble cause . Perhaps, the quest for other lifeforms is an inherent part of all sentient beings. Who is to say that in time we could become the fathers of sentinel monoliths waiting patiently for life to emerge from chaos in a distant star on an alien moon. Thanks Kevin, I really enjoyed this story wish it was little longer.
@kevind118310 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the comments! There were a lot of wonderful audiobooks from that time period and I'm glad they can be shared and enjoyed and not lost to time.
@AlanMedina31410 жыл бұрын
I Thank You, again for this great story. This one and The Star are now some of my all time favorite short stories. This story will not be forgotten thanks to the efforts of true aficionados like you and me. Please feel free to add more of these wonderful storiesl they are truly appreciated.
@ivandiablo82829 жыл бұрын
Alan Medina narrator was 'the doctor' on star trek - deep space 9
@AlanMedina3149 жыл бұрын
kano8506 I think So.
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
Alan Medina Obviously you fell in love with the movie Mission to Mars?
@markanthonycoliinson8736 жыл бұрын
I love this story: embryonic 2001. Alexander Sidding does a brilliant reading of this, too. Thanks for uploading this.
@kevind11836 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! I hope to upload some more audio books in the not too distant future
@billymandalay75138 жыл бұрын
Woohooo! It's Doctor Bashir !
@simeonmihaylov88209 жыл бұрын
Very nice, one can hear 2001 coming around the corner here. Yet it is a very good story on its own
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
Simeon Mihaylov Not unless you know some of the back story to the making of 2001. I presume you mean the movie and not the novel?
@kyriakospentheides7 жыл бұрын
No, he can clearly see that this is the origin for the Tycho expedition sequence from the novel and the movie of '2001'. Clarke cannibalized this short story and a few others for his screenplay and novel.
@peterarnt8 жыл бұрын
The narrator is Alexander Siddig. He is also known for portraying the character Dr. Julian Bashir on the 1990's TV series Star Trek DS9.
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
He did a very good job.
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
Peter Arnt The name here is Siddig El Fadil, not Alexander Siddig. What, he changed his name cause it sounded too middle eastern?
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
Both are stage names, Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Karim El Mahdi was a bit long I guess...
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
zapfanzapfan So where does the Alexander come in? His long Arab name not royal enough?
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
Picked at random apparently. At least he stuck with Siddig. Kirk Douglas and John Wayne are completely made up.
@rtelkin21948 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. A few memorable lines remain, as does the story.
@ianroberts71196 жыл бұрын
Fab story thanks for posting Kevin :-)
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting it up, I have seen 2001 many times but not read the basis for it. Very interesting to listen to and with hindsight know what he got wrong and what he got right. A bit of ice where the sun don´t shine, yes, previous water oceans and life, not so much. Also interesting that he thought we would get to the Moon by 1996, he got the last two digits messed up there :-)
@popeinnocentiii63158 жыл бұрын
First of all: this story is better characterized as inspiration than as basis for 2001. Arthur C. Clarke himself vehemently denied the notion that it is the latter. I'm not sure if this was meant to be realistic speculation. It seems to be more about the ideas set forth. If that is right, then 'getting it right' is not applicable here.
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
Abramelin the Mage Little was known about how the Moon was formed back then so he got it as correct as he could be expected to. And if not for the space race we would have yet to set foot on the Moon. Physics he always gets right, messy things like biology and human behavior less so :-)
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
zapfanzapfan Again, when did he write this story? His info about the moon is so dated. The characters are frying sausages in a frying pan inside their lunar tractor? The fumes of such would corrupt the CO2 air-scrubbers of their vehicle.
@zapfanzapfan8 жыл бұрын
Jeffrey314159 Written in 1948, long before any actual space travel.
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
zapfanzapfan Well, that makes sense, they were still smoking inside undersea submarines back then.
@davidgifford81125 жыл бұрын
I’ve read this many times, but listened to it the term “between fire and ice” sticks out. A 1948 reference to what is now called the “Goldilocks” or habitable zone.
@MicrobyteAlan6 жыл бұрын
Most excellent, thanks
@rorysmith93827 жыл бұрын
This was a clever story.
@debrasalitra88448 жыл бұрын
great story! You can tell it is the moon portion of 2001.
@jrh50673 жыл бұрын
Audio books. Great things, let's your mind to do what it wants, each listener will have a different visual representation. Myths, legends, gods and monsters. All came to be about today due to the power of imagination when stories were told. Way way way before tv, radio and the internet.
@008fiona5 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@Jeffrey3141598 жыл бұрын
The Sentinel, or Sentinel for Eternity?
@TheAgentmigs8 жыл бұрын
This is pretty much the premise of the Mass Effect series.
@martinschell42124 жыл бұрын
You have to read 'Adrasteia' by Peter Frey, available from Amazon. It's the best new sci fi/time travel book on the market.
@constantin38865 жыл бұрын
17:30
@Justmearegularperson8 жыл бұрын
Kevin Degnon you the real mvp
@kevind11838 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!
@gamingprince53128 жыл бұрын
this helped
@gageplayz39654 жыл бұрын
9:58
@texasfloodthe93709 жыл бұрын
The narrator sounds kinda like Ewan McGregor
@Musabre9 жыл бұрын
+texas flood, the Ewan McGregor when he's hiding his Scottish accent? ;P
@DæmonV867 жыл бұрын
texas flood, the That's Sidig El Fadil! Dr. Fucking Bashir!! Don't you know??? He's not even Scottish, he's an Indian Brit! Jesus Christ!!!!
@kyriakospentheides7 жыл бұрын
Actually he is not Indian, his father Sudanese (North African).He is also the nephew of Malcolm MacDowell (so he is also a Scottish-Englander, I guess) and he does look like MacDowell (because he takes after his mother whom looks a lot like her brother).
@chriswieman6 жыл бұрын
Kyriakos Pentheides - Fascinating! As the story began I kept thinking the narrator sounded like Malcolm McDowell, so much so that I thought that it was him, and the audio maybe at the wrong speed (to account for the differences).
@jaysonraphaelmurdock88123 жыл бұрын
Honestly I can hear why you thought he sounded similar to Ewan McGregor.
@DirtiestDMusic2 жыл бұрын
FAT FARM--
@onlyonewhyphy5 жыл бұрын
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@hectorpascal3 жыл бұрын
Serious hum and some bandwidth restriction certainly spoils the good reading..... :((