Rendezvous with Rama

from FicusFan

This was a RL book group read for me. Unlike many in the group it wasn't a re-read. I never read this when I was younger. The book was first published in 1973. It is an old fashioned novel that has few women, and finds sexist remarks, and bigamy OK. The premise is that in the future there is a la...

from swynn

I've known about this book for what seems like ever, as a canonical "big dumb object" book, but have only just read it for the first time. My what I've missed. The plot is simple: a mysterious cylindrical object appears in nearby space. Humans go to investigate. They see many mysterious things, b...

from Eyejaybee

Is Rendezvous with Rama the greatest science fiction novel ever written? It is certainly the best one that I have read, and its impact remains undiminished after several re-readings. Clarke's supremacy as a writer of science fiction lies in his ability to describe fantastic events, scenarios and ...

from Eyejaybee

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 ini...

from cbradley

Clarke wrote some great books and this one ranks towards the top, right along with Childhood's End. Only Clarke could write a book with so much emphasis on exploration and so little an emphasis on action. I loved this book from the first to last page and found the Raman's to be intriguing. I only...