Rendezvous with Rama
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (766 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001JK64LY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Reinold F. said What if you find a bottle with the message being a whole world.. Actually I thought I had read this book before as the title seemed familiar but not special. Oh boy! it was a book I had not read and what a surprise, now it's an unforgettable story to me. It's full of adventure, humanity and science in an uncanny envelope. I thought it was going to be predictable but its magic proved to last until its end. This story is a box of surprises opening almost non-stop.. Like Visiting an Old Friend! Re-reading this was sort of like visiting an old friend again. I first read this back in the early 80s and then it was very futuristic and "out there." As a much older woman, it was more quaint than I remembered. Of course, it was written in the 70s, so there's that. Arthur C. Clarke is my favorite SF author of all time, so I'd like anything he wrote during his lifetime, but this one raised some ey. "A classic masterpiece mired in 1970s" according to Gary R Zarback. Being an avid SciFi fan for a couple decades, I decided to start reading some of the classics and legends.The writing, the words used, descriptionsall are outrageously dated to somebody who thrived in the 1960-1980s in USA. This is a pet peave of mine; authors who categorically abandon their writing to a specific generational viewpoint. It's like watching a 1978 sitcom; the music is all wrong, the
An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. . Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. A huge, mysterious, cylind
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.. FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY