"I was standing on a plateau perhaps a hundred feet across. It had once been smooth - too smooth to be natural - but falling meteors had pitted and scored its surface through immeasurable aeons. It had been levelled to support a glittering, roughly pyramidical structure, twice as high as a man, that was set in rock like a gigantic many- faceted jewel."

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This page: Copyright © 1999, 2008 The picture above appeared in Esquire Magazine, May 1966, and has not been reproduced elsewhere as far as I am aware. Quote from "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke, © Avon Periodicals Inc., 1951

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