Before there were men on Earth, that signal-sending pyramid had stood alone on a lifeless moon. What would happen now that its alarm was silenced?

Today's story is "Sentinel of Eternity" by Arthur C Clarke. It appeared in the Sring 1951 issue of "10 Story Fantasy" on pages 41 to 47.

This story, originally called "The Sentinel," was written in 1948 for a BBC competition in which it failed to place.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

He was a science fiction writer, an avid populariser of space travel, and a futurist of distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays for popular magazines. Clarke's science and science fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age." His science fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularising science.

Clarke augmented his popularity in the 1980s, as the host of television shows such as Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World.

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The Jansky Radiation was emanating from a single source in space, according to Tommy's father, which meant that it was artificial, produced by a civilization beyond the solar system! Tommy's father would take weeks to analyze the signal in order to decipher it—a lifetime for Tommy—so he knew that he, like his comic book heroes, Space Captain McGee and the Star Rover, would have to step up and solve the problem...

"From Beyond the Stars" appeared in "Thrilling Wonder Stories," June 1947, pages 82 - 88.

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

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His parents had sent young Percival out to Too Dry, Montana, to live with his Uncle to make a man of him, and for his health. But all Percival wanted was to get back home to New York, and for that he needed just three hundred dollars...

"The Strike at Too Dry" appeared in "Blue Book Magazine," January 1925, pages 78 - 84.

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