Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:23:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Expedition to Earth?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ernest Lilley <elilley at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I need to quote a short story, which I think was in
> Clarke's Expedition to
> Earth, in fact was that story itself. Can anyone confirm
> that I've got the
> right story?
>
> In it, explorers return to Earth after some millennia and
> find it inhabited
> by robots which have evolved to about the level of well,
> Moonwatcher in
> 2001. Ah. Actually, that pretty well confirms it for me
> since there are
> quite a few 2001 parallels in the story.
>
> If anyone has a copy handy and can come up with the
> sentence early on where
> the landscape is too weird for the explorers to
> understand, I'd appreciate
> it.
>

I just checked all the stories in that collection.  None
match your description, though it does contain one of my
top 5 SF stories of all time, "The Sentinel".

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