Rendezvous with Rama

Kindle, 247 pages

English language

Published March 4, 2012 by Gateway.

ASIN:: B0079MRDIE
Goodreads:: 16114995-rendezvous-with-rama

(2 reviews)

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time

Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.

It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...

Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973 Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973

44 editions

Leia reviewed Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Rama, #1)

There is a reason it is still known

5 stars

Very little sci fi is still talked about decades later. And often, that which is, how the author was a huge asshole/sexist/etc. is a part of that conversation.

I haven't heard any of that about Arthur C. Clarke. And the book is still solid both in it's sci fi and its politics. If anything, it's more optimistic than more modern fair.

I really enjoyed it, albeit that it took a bit to get though.

Jens Finkhäuser reviewed Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Rama, #1)

I'd rate it 50/50...

3 stars

... that is, it's 50% description of a docking maneuver, and 50% setup for an exciting book.

I guess that makes it one of those books you should read once, but I didn't manage to enjoy it much.

Subjects

Fiction
Future in literature
Hugo Award Winner
Nebula award winner
Rama (Imaginary space vehicle)
Science fiction
award:hugo_award=1974
award:hugo_award=novel
Interplanetary voyages
Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 10
Reading Level-Grade 12
Fiction, science fiction, general
Large type books