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Rendezvous With Rama

Rendezvous With Rama

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An enormous cylindrical object appears in Earth’s solar system, hurtling toward the sun. A ship is sent to explore the mysterious craft—which the denizens of the solar system name Rama—and what they find is intriguing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over 50 kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. So who—and where—are the Ramans?Often listed as one of Clarke’s finest novels, Rendezvous With Rama has won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous With Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that continue to fascinate readers decades after its first publication.
An enormous cylindrical object appears in Earth’s solar system, hurtling toward the sun. A ship is sent to explore the mysterious craft—which the denizens of the solar system name Rama—and what they find is intriguing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over 50 kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. So who—and where—are the Ramans?Often listed as one of Clarke’s finest novels, Rendezvous With Rama has won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous With Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that continue to fascinate readers decades after its first publication.

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Categories:Books, Fiction & Literature, Science Fiction
Publish date: Nov 30, 2012
Added to Scribd: Jun 28, 2013
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jenneb_2 reviewed this|6 months ago
Rated 2/5
This really felt like half a book.
purlewe reviewed this|6 months ago
Rated 4/5
Really liked this. The only trouble I had was I never could get a vision in my head of what it looked like. I know that sounds crazy, but here me out.. all the descriptors in the world can't help me if I have no reference.. and I really felt like I didn't know what it looked like when the book was done. Just one simple line drawing would have moved me forward immeasurably.
murphy4jacobs reviewed this|6 months ago
Rated 2/5
I should reread this book, as I read it in 8th grade (I remember because I read it mostly during science class). Perhaps because I found the class rather dull, I found the book dull.
jgolomb_2 reviewed this|7 months ago
Rated 4/5
Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" reads like a cross between his classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Jules Vernes' "Jouney to the Centre of the Earth". Mix some speculative science with the exploration of new worlds, and biological first-contact; toss in a sprinkle of mystery, and you have a solid, if not a bit flat, "Rendezvous with Rama".A massive object cruises into our Solar System, aiming generally toward the Sun. A space-faring mankind must deal with its examination, and face a future that will never be the same. Clarke deals with a range of his typical themes including xenophobia, politics at a solar system-level, religion that looks beyond terra firma, and humanity's first contact with extraterrestrials.The story is solid, the writing is clean. But in typical Clarke fashion, the characters are one-dimensional.
ianinsheffield_1 reviewed this|8 months ago
Rated 3/5
Felt a bit shallow with characters hardly fleshed out; rather superficial. Interesting to note the technologies mentioned which have actually since come to pass.
vvolodymyr_1 reviewed this|about 1 year ago
Rated 4/5
As it was for me, I suspect it is a great introduction into the "Big Object" exploration sub-genre for anyone out there.Although I read it few decades after the book was written, it did manage to captivate my attention; where every step, every little mystery, every indecision described, simply egged me on to go ahead and find out what happened next.I read many scifi works written in 2000's and 2010's before giving this book a try, and was skeptical at first, but the solidity of the plot and literary skill of Arthur C. Clarke changed my mind and provided me with days of quality entertainment.
lizzy2x reviewed this|about 1 year ago
Rated 3/5
Very good book. A little of the old-school sci-fi hokeyness often present in, well, old-school sci-fi, but otherwise, very exploratory and good. A page-turner.
eyejaybee reviewed this|over 2 years ago
Rated 5/5
An amazing novel that still seems as fresh today as when it was published nearly forty years ago. It chronicles the arrival in the twenty-second century of a huge spaceship created by the dwellers of a distant galaxy. Cruising through space it gradually comes into the solar system where it is initially mis-diagnosed as a massive asteroid. Closer inspection shows that it has clearly been created by external agency. A space cruiser is diverted to liaise with the object. Upon lading on the vehicle itself Commander Norton and his men are able to gain access to the inside where they find a miniature world.As the huge spaceship nears the sun the temperature rises and this sets in motion a whole eco system.A fantastic tour de force of Clarke's imagination.
sturlington_1 reviewed this|over 2 years ago
Rated 4/5
Rendezvous with Rama is a big-idea book in the classic tradition of hard science fiction. Rama is a gigantic space station, seemingly dead for hundreds of thousands of years, that enters our solar system in a future when humankind has colonized all of the habitable moons and planets. There is a brief window when the crew of the nearby spaceship Endeavour can explore this technical marvel before it passes too close to the Sun. Most of the story details the exploration and what is found inside.The structure of the huge spacecraft is fascinating. But there isn't a lot of plot here and the characters are fairly one-dimensional. (A hint of a sex scene toward the end seems both out-of-place and superfluous.) The novel ends on something of a cliffhanger, but the sequels were not written by Clarke and are said to be sub-standard, so I probably won't read them. I was left a little frustrated, wanting more.I have noticed a similar theme in Clarke's novels. He envisions aliens as so technologically advanced that they are god-like. They visit us either to ignore us completely or to manipulate us, but always they seem remote, impassive, uninterested in our petty concerns, again like gods. Having recognized this pattern, I don't feel all that eager to read another Arthur C. Clarke novel.
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