Rendezvous with Rama
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Book
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ISBN 10
0899684491
ISBN 13
9780899684499
Category
823 English Fiction
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
274
Subject
Rama (Imaginary space vehicle) -- Fiction. Rama (Imaginary space vehicle)
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Abstract
"Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work"--
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Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work.
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.
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 Endeavor 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--the a long-hoped-for, but also long-feared encounter with a visitor from beyond the stars.
Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work.
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.
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 Endeavor 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--the a long-hoped-for, but also long-feared encounter with a visitor from beyond the stars.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Science fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Charles Clarke
ISBN: 0899684491 9780899684499
OCLC Number: 678165484
Notes: Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1973.
Description: 274 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Arthur C. Clarke.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Charles Clarke
ISBN: 0899684491 9780899684499
OCLC Number: 678165484
Notes: Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1973.
Description: 274 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Arthur C. Clarke.
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