Man has also colonized several outer space locations, including Mercury, the Moon, Mars and several other moons. Set a few hundred years in the future, Earth has created a monitoring agency for asteroids after a large one has crashed into the Earth. Out of all the award winners I’ve read, this book was closest in plot and style to Ringworld by Larry Niven, however I enjoyed this book even more as the pace was very brisk and Clarke built excellent suspense despite little action. Clarke tells a classic story of first contact with an alien presence, but makes it entirely original by changing the location of the meeting to an outer space vessel that is possibly abandoned. We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative.Much like The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, Rendezvous with Rama is an excellent throwback science fiction novel by a master of the genre. We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative.” - The New York Times A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations.
Often listed as one of Clarke’s finest novels, Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers a forbidding cylindrical sea mysterious and inaccessible buildings and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama.
Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel -“a stone-cold classic” of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).Īn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun.
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