Rendezvous with Rama

, #1

by

Kindle, 247 pages

English language

Published March 4, 2012 by Gateway.

ASIN:
B0079MRDIE
Goodreads:
16114995-rendezvous-with-rama
4 stars (3 reviews)

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time

Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.

It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...

Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973 Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973

45 editions

reviewed Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Rama, #1)

There is a reason it is still known

5 stars

Very little sci fi is still talked about decades later. And often, that which is, how the author was a huge asshole/sexist/etc. is a part of that conversation.

I haven't heard any of that about Arthur C. Clarke. And the book is still solid both in it's sci fi and its politics. If anything, it's more optimistic than more modern fair.

I really enjoyed it, albeit that it took a bit to get though.

reviewed Cita con Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

No es su mejor obra, pero es la obra de un genio.

5 stars

Tal y como dice otro comentario: "[...]it's 50% description of a docking maneuver, and 50% setup for an exciting book[...]". Y así es, dan ganas de leer las siguientes novelas de la saga porque esta deja muchos hilos por atar. Pongo cinco estrellas porque es de un grande y como episodio piloto me ha gustado bastante, aunque revisaré mi valoración cuando lea el resto de la saga.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Future in literature
  • Hugo Award Winner
  • Nebula award winner
  • Rama (Imaginary space vehicle)
  • Science fiction
  • award:hugo_award=1974
  • award:hugo_award=novel
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Reading Level-Grade 9
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Large type books