Editing The Sentinel (short story) (section)

==Reception==
[[Algis Budrys]] found "The Sentinel" to be infuriating, saying that "one can raise a formidable reputation for profundity by repeating, over and over again, that the universe is wide and man is very small... while our instruments show that the universe is wide, they are our instruments and we managed somehow to build them. There is no evidence whatsoever that Man is that goddamned small."<ref name="budrys196710">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Budrys
 |first=Algis
 |date=October 1967
 |title=Galaxy Bookshelf
 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v26n01_1967-10_modified#page/n175/mode/2up
 |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction
 |pages=188–194
}}</ref>

Singer-songwriter Roger McGuinn wrote and performed the song "Space Odyssey", whose subject is “The Sentinel”. It is the closing track on the 1968 album by [[the Byrds]], ''[[The Notorious Byrd Brothers]]'', and consists mostly of a Moog synthesizer and minimal instrumental accompaniment. The vocals are delivered in a "[[sea shanty]]" cadence.