![]() ![]() 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). 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. The nine billion names of God the best short stories of Arthur C. “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. Clarke’s short story addresses the conflict between technology or science and religion. The astronauts stationed on the moon are all certain that no intelligent life-form has ever set foot on the moon prior to themselves. The Nine Billion Names of God published in 1953 demonstrates just this, in which the story’s main characters are caught between their logic and that of another group. ![]()
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