Title: Guardian Angel

Title: Guardian Angel Title Record # 91784
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1950-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Note: In 1952, 'Guardian angel' was expanded to become part 1 'Earth and the Overlords' of the novel Childhood's End. According to a note in "Collected Stories" James Blish added a new ending after the story was rejected multiple times.

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Year	Language	Title
1982^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited hand	German	Schutzengel
2013^ⓘTranslated by Denise Terrel revised by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Tom%20Clegg&type=Name&mode=exact">Tom Clegg</a>	French	Ange gardien

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
New Worlds, #8 Winter 1950	1950-00-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	96	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Bob Clothier
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1950	1950-04-00	ed. Mary Gnaedinger	All-Fiction Field, Inc.		$0.25^?$: US dollar	132	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Lawrence
Science Fiction Origins	1980-12-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, William F. Nolan	Fawcett Popular Library	0-445-04626-0	$2.25^?$: US dollar	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Fremde aus dem All	1982-06-00	ed. uncredited	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special #24031)	3-404-24031-6	DM 6.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	413	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Sentinel	1983-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Berkley Books (Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Byron Preiss))	0-425-06183-3	$6.95^?$: US dollar	303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Lebbeus Woods
The Sentinel	1984-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Berkley Books	0-425-06575-8	$50.00^?$: US dollar	260	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Sentinel	1984-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Berkley Books / SFBC (Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Byron Preiss))	3289	$3.98^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 203+ [3]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Lebbeus Woods
The Sentinel	1985-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Panther / Granada	0-586-06343-9	£2.95^?£: UK pound	299	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Chris Foss
The Sentinel	1986-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Berkley Books	0-425-09389-1	$3.50^?$: US dollar	260	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Lebbeus Woods
Devils	1987-06-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Signet / New American Library	0-451-14865-7	$3.50^?$: US dollar	351	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	J. K. Potter
Devils	1989-00-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Robinson	1-85487-000-9	£3.99^?£: UK pound	351	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Peter Knifton
Famous Fantastic Mysteries	1991-08-00	ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg	Gramercy Books	0-517-05577-5	$10.00^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 449	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Virgil Finlay
The Sentinel	1991-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Grafton	0-586-21204-3	£3.99^?£: UK pound	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Chris Moore
The Sentinel	1993-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	HarperCollins	0-586-21204-3	£4.99^?£: UK pound	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Chris Moore
The Sentinel	1996-04-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Barnes & Noble Books	0-7607-0178-4	$5.98^?$: US dollar	303	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Lebbeus Woods
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2000-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07065-X	£20.00^?£: UK pound	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	blacksheep Design
The Sentinel	2000-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-586-21204-3	£5.99^?£: UK pound	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Chris Moore
The Sentinel	2000-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	ibooks	0-7434-0721-0	$14.95^?$: US dollar	298	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Lebbeus Woods
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor / SFBC	35027	$14.98^?$: US dollar	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-10-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	1-85798-323-8	£9.99^?£: UK pound	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Blacksheep
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2002-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Orb	0-312-87860-5	$17.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Drive Communications
The Sentinel	2002-08-01	Arthur C. Clarke	ibooks	1-58824-040-1	$8.49^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2008-11-03	Arthur C. Clarke	Paw Prints	978-1-4395-6906-1	$28.95^?$: US dollar	966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Odyssées: l'intégrale des nouvelles	2013-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Bragelonne	978-2-35294-684-7	€28.00^?€: Euro	1116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2016-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-4973-7			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Corinna Lupp
Childhood's End	2019-10-31	Arthur C. Clarke	Centipede Press	978-1-61347-134-0	$295.00^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	David Ho
The Sentinel	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-586-21204-3	£5.99^?£: UK pound	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Chris Moore
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	1-85798-323-8	£14.99^?£: UK pound	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Blacksheep
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Orb	0-312-87860-5	$19.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications

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