Rendezvous With Rama
Mar 2012 · S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 65 · Hachette UK
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The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.
It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...
Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973
Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.
It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...
Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973
Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973
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4.6
191 reviews
Simon Impey
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19 October 2014
The book is a good read, with some thoughtful climaxes and believable human reactions. The story benefits from some imaginative proper 'science fiction' and is paced well. It does however lack any real development of characters and of course is set up as a deliberate lead onto further novels (which I am not so inclined to dive into). I would recommend reading this however, as it grasps some original scientific themes and delivers on imagery.
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Simon Iversen
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26 December 2016
This book doles out its mysteries at a precisely maintained rate, so as to keep you satisfied during its short read, but always wanting more. The science checks out. If you are looking for deep, well constructed characters, you will not find them here - the only star of this story is Rama itself.
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Jessica Strange
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30 August 2016
Another perfectly descriptive piece of sci-fi from Arthur C Clarke. Mysterious and claustrophobic, I loved every page
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About the author
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, The Sentinel. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.
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