![]() ![]() Mankind has begun to scatter colonies among the closer planets, inter-planetary rivalry is on the rise and, while population growth is restricted on the overcrowded Earth, polgamy is a popular choice for those of means who want to spread their offspring around the solar system. Set approximately 150 years after the date in which it was written, Rendezvous with Rama presents a recognisable, not too different human world. When Earth’s system of protection against asteroid bombardment (and how topical that seems this week), Spaceguard, picks up a non-natural, geometrically-perfect cylinder spinning towards Mercury and the Sun, the wonder of man’s first encounter with an alien object in space is overwhelmed by the sheer awe-inspiring power of Clarke’s descriptions of the interior, once breached by the crew of the Endeavour. Clarke creates upon the page a vividly complex three-dimensional puzzle. I first read Rendezvous with Rama about twenty years ago. It is Mankind’s first visitor from the stars and must be investigated.’ ![]() ‘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 artifact. Clarke 2013 Reading Challenge book is Rendezvous with Rama published in 1973 and now available from Gollancz. ![]()
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