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Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama

Hard Sci-FiScience Fiction
Pages
350
Published
1973
Language
English

Synopsis

In Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction novel, a colossal alien cylinder, Rama, hurtles through our solar system. A desperate mission is launched to explore this enigmatic object before it's lost forever. Inside, a team of astronauts discovers a world of breathtaking scale and mystery, filled with puzzles that challenge their understanding of the universe.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MysteriousThought-ProvokingAdventurousAtmospheric
Quest

Genres

Hard Sci-Fi Science Fiction Space Opera

About the author

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays,...

Characters

Jimmy PakSupporting

A crew member who secretly smuggles a low-gravity skybike aboard the Endeavour and uses it to explore deep into Rama.

Karl MercerSupporting

Norton's second-in-command on the Endeavour, chosen to make the initial foray into Rama.

Boris RodrigoSupporting

A devout crewman whose faith leads him to see Rama as a "Cosmic Ark."

Laura ErnstSupporting

Surgeon-Commander of the Endeavour who dissects and studies one of Rama's biological-robotic "biots."

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