The Sentinel - Arthur C. Clarke [120]
In 1962 he was honored by the Franklin Institute for having originated the concept of communications satellites in a technical paper published in 1945. That same year, he received the Kalinga Prize for science writing from the Director-General of UNESCO.
In 1969, he shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the ground-breaking science fiction film. He has also covered the missions of Apollo 11, 12 and 15 with Walter Cronkite and N.A.S.A.’s Wally Schirra. In 1968 Mr. Clarke was selected to write the epilogue to the astronauts’ own account of the Apollo mission, First on the Moon.
For thirty years, Mr. Clarke’s hobby has been undersea exploration along the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and off the coast of Sri Lanka, where he has resided since 1956. This interest has been the subject of nine of his works, including Indian Ocean Treasure, a first-hand account of the discovery of a man-of-war which sank in 1702 off the coast of Sri Lanka with at least a ton of silver aboard.
His popular science articles have appeared in such publications as Time, The Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, The London Observer and many others.
As one of the preeminent science fiction authors of the twentieth century, he has been awarded all of the field’s highest awards; his novel, Rendezvous with Rama, won the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards of 1974.
Among Mr. Clarke’s other well-known works are 2001: A Space Odyssey and its best-selling sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two; The Fountains of Paradise; Childhood’s End; and a television series, Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World.
Mr. Clarke has over 20 million copies of nearly fifty books in print, including numerous anthologies of his short fiction.
In 1982, he received the Marconi International Fellowship and was nominated for the position of Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa by the President of Sri Lanka. From his home on that island, he continues to write, consult and travel internationally for scientific lectures and conferences.
LEBBEUS WOODS was born in East Lansing, Michigan, on May 31, 1940. Receiving his technical training at the Purdue University School of Engineering and the University of Illinois School of Architecture, he worked in the late 1960s for the distinguished architectural firm of Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates on the design, development and construction of the Ford Foundation Headquarters Building in New York City. As Director of Design for his own firm, he won a Progressive Architecture citation for applied research in design in 1974. Returning to New York City in 1978, he has continued the development of his ideas in drawings and writings that have been widely published and exhibited.
Architecture-Sculpture-Painting (1979) depicts an architecture integrated with sculpture and painting as a paradigm for an integrated, holistic society. Einstein Tomb (1980) is a proposal for a monument to be constructed in orbit and sent into deep space commemorating the kinship of Einstein’s thought with ancient philosophies of dialectical continuity and unity. Aeon: The Architecture of Time (1982) is a vision of four cities that form a cycle of the evolution of civilization in harmony with cycles of natural evolution on Earth and beyond.
As an illustrator, he has worked with leading architects throughout the United States. In addition he has undertaken the illustration of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung, for which he has completed The Rheingold. His first drawings for a book of science fiction are these for Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel.
BYRON PREISS VISUAL PUBLICATIONS, INC. is the award-winning producer of numerous illustrated volumes of science fiction and fantasy literature, including editions by Ray Bradbury, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny. Their monograph on the work of Leo and Diane Dillon, the two-time Caldecott Award-winning artists, was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1981. They recently produced