And of course as with all of Clarke's books, well written. I thought it was entertaining and well thought out. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the book. At the end of the book I literally thought, really? that's it? I was quite disappointed. I've read many of this books and thought to myself that I'd love to live a day in his mind! When I seen how popular this book was and all the awards it as won, I was very excited about reading it thinking that it has to be a fantastic book filled with mind blowing psychological aspects. I love the psychological plots his books contain. I think it's one of those cases where I was just too excited about reading it and it ended up not living up to my high expectations. It was actually difficult for me to rate this one. We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative.” - The New York Times Read more A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations. Often listed as one of Clarke’s finest novels, Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers a forbidding cylindrical sea mysterious and inaccessible buildings and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel-“a stone-cold classic” of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).Īn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun.

Rendezvous at rama