Rendezvous with Rama
Harper Collins Publ. USA
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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).An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. 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. But what they don't find is an alien presence. So who-and where-are the Ramans? 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. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology,...
