While I’ve read many astonishing SF novels over the years with wildly imaginative plots and situations, I’m still impressed by Clarke. How does one traverse from one end of a giant rotating cylinder kilometres across given the only zero gravity route is straight down the center from pole to pole? Rendezvous With Rama Arthur Charles Clarke Bantam Books, 1990 - Fiction - 243 pages 140 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified At. What would happen to a gigantic spacecraft as it nears the sun and begins heating up? They find an interior stretching over fifty. 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. I couldn’t help but marvel at the scenes and situations he dreams up based on simple principal such as: An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun.
This is where Clark‘s imagination and big thinking kick in. Most of the book is devoted to the actual exploration of Rama.
An available ship and crew are rerouted and rendezvous with Rama to explore before it inevitably heads back out of the solar system. That’s when the giant object called Rama - 50 kilometers long - appears following a comet-like trajectory predicted to pass by the sun and slingshot back out of the solar system. He spins his tale around basic physics, orbital mechanics, meteorology, gravity, and political and religious rivalries among humans spread throughout the solar system of the year 2131. I’m happy to say that Rama has lost none of its punch despite its simple narrative structure and almost cardboard characters. A lot of technological time has passed since then especially when it comes to computers, robotics, and deep space exploration. How would it hold up after all these years? Clarke was a pretty smart guy and the author of such work says Childhood’s End and The City and the Stars. I approached reading Rendezvous with Rama with some trepidation.
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