All right. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show.

I have a returning guest. His name is Valibus. He goes by JJ as well. We're going to talk about Arthur C. Clark's The Sentinel.

And last time we were together, we talked about Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land that was very well received.

People were very interested in that. So this book was published in 1951. It was actually a short story, but it's a precursor to his later work in 2001 of Space Odyssey.

So I think it's very important to kind of see this spot in time where Arthur C. Clark was writing about this mysterious thing or monolith on the moon.

So JJ, are you there?

Yeah, Mr. William Ramsey, great to speaking with you again today.

Thanks for having me back.

I also enjoyed the last conversation.

I thought it was very fruitful of information and I enjoyed it.

Yeah, me too.

Looking forward to this one as well.

And I think Arthur C. Clark may in fact be a more interesting character than Robert

Heinle.

Yeah, for sure.

Very interesting character.

So what were your impressions about The Sentinel when you reread it recently?

And yeah, it is recently because to be quite candid, I'm not a science fiction fan whatsoever. So these are the first time I, I've read some of these works or second time, you know, I've read some of these works. So I'm not, you know, these are all, basically I'm reading them for these discussions for the most part or, you know, have a greater understanding of who these, these group of people really were. Right. And, you know, but I have an interest in some science and in some fiction, but not so much of the

spaceship exploration stuff that these, these folks, you know, seem to focus on.

Right.

I don't think I'm either, but I do think that it's fascinating to see what they're writing

about it at any given time, you know, what their

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