Sir Arthur C. Clarke, composite. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke gazes at the moon. "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming," one of Arthur C. Clarke's characters says in the short story "The Sentinel" (1948), which was the basis for his book 2001 - A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED