![]() ![]() This humbles them to the point that the narrator becomes fearful that one day “they may discover us they may not like what they find, for to them we should be no more than maggots” (103). This volume is of special interest - included are a wide range of classic stories, including the title story, Jupiter Five. ![]() They are forced to reckon with the possibility that this creature is “a godlike being” (102). Again, the human characters are shocked to discover that their assumptions-that life could not exist on the Sun-are incorrect. “Out of the Sun” brings a group of astronauts into contact with a God-like creature born directly of the sun. These intelligent beings that are only interested in human contact once they have achieved space travel. Their discovery of the object referred to as the sentinel proves them wrong and shows them that there is a source of intelligent life in the Universe that has been waiting for the human race to evolve. I thought Jaffe had been in a movie set in ShangriLa, so that's why they called the head monk that. Clarkes The Nine Billion Names of God is an anthology of his favorite short stories that was first published in 1974 during the golden age of mass market. They said they called the head lama Sam Jaffe, although he didn't look like him. ![]() The astronauts stationed on the moon are all certain that no intelligent life-form has ever set foot on the moon prior to themselves. In the story, computer guys go to Tibet to install a super computer. ![]()
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