Rendezvous with Rama - by Arthur C Clarke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, <i>Rendezvous with Rama</i> is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, <i>Rendezvous with Rama</i> is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work.</b> <p/> By the year 2130, the solar system has been colonized, with humans living on planets ranging from Mercury to the moons of Neptune. Despite so much expansion and discovery, there have been no signs of intelligent life besides our own Earth-born. Until Rama. <p/> Weighing more than ten trillion tons, smoothly shaped, and racing towards the sun at astonishing speed, Rama was no natural object, but clearly an interstellar spacecraft. It appeared to be on course to loop around the Sun, but at a dangerously close orbit. After Commander William Tsien Norton makes the tricky landing of his ship <i>Endeavor </i>on the edge of the colossal craft, he discovers an airlock. Awaiting him on the other side of that portal is a historical moment not experienced since Pizzaro met the Incas or Howard Carter peered into the tomb of Tutankhamen<i>--</i>the a long-hoped-for, but also long-feared encounter with a visitor from beyond the stars.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"It was delightful to be presented with a scene to stagger the imagination and yet have it described so exactly and meticulously as to know you have been there." <i>--</i>Isaac Asimov <p/> "Arthur has done it again<i>--</i>proved that the chief ingredient of superior science fiction is story." <i>--</i>Frank Herbert <p/> "Something for everybody<i>--</i>politics, religion, and all kinds of science wrapped up in a taut mystery-suspense." <i>--</i>Publisher's Weekly <p/> "Mr. Clarke is splendid. . .We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative." <i>--</i><i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008), one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century science fiction, wrote over fifty novels and co-wrote the movie <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. <i>Rendezvous with Rama</i> earned Clarke both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award. <br>
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