![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What the explorers hear, see, feel and understand is what weexperience, too.Ĭlarke really outdoes himself in this one. There is no omniscient, god-like narrator showing useverything. While this may befrustrating, here it serves to put the reader into the shoes of theexplorers. While most want, likescience itself, to explain things, this one presents us with thecompletely inexplicable and the utterly alien. Rendezvous withRama is different from most science-fiction books. Our astronauts manage to go inside, anddiscover that Rama is some sort of space ark whose rotation providesgravity along the inner surface as well as a breathable atmosphere! Thevast inner surfaces seem to house cities, whose odd buildings no oneseems to be able to enter, and even a frozen sea. An expedition is sent to investigate theamazing object, since it is apparent it will actually pass the earthinstead of smashing into it. Named Rama, the object is a massive cylinderrotating rapidly on its axis. Closeexamination shows the object may be artificial. ![]() In the 22nd century, anearly-warning system set up to protect Earth from devastating meteorstrikes detects a large object approaching at great speed. Clarke is considered one of the threegrandmasters of science fiction, along with Heinlein and Asimov. Rendezvous with Rama is probablyone of the most interesting and suspenseful science-fiction booksyou'll ever read. ![]()
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