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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 181 g
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SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008) wrote the novel and co-authored the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and he is the only science-fiction writer to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His fiction and nonfiction have sold more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide.

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  • Jorge P
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clarke's second best.
    Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2025
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    Bought it for my nephew. I loved this book and I'm sure he will too.
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  • Ada
    4.0 out of 5 stars Classic sci-fi as we know it.
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2024
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    Exploration and wonder are at the heart of this story. Conflict is minimal. Sets us up for the next book.
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  • Ryan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic.
    Reviewed in Canada on February 13, 2025
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    Classic novel. Would recommend. Beware of a slightly disappointing ending.
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  • Norah S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2025
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    Excellent, and fast shipping too
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  • Andre Farant
    4.0 out of 5 stars A classic of hard science fiction
    Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2011
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    Written by Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (among many, many others), "Rendezvous with Rama" is considered by many one of his finest works and a contemporary classic in the genre of hard science-fiction. It tells the tale of a ship and its crew tasked with docking with and exploring the interior of a mysterious alien vessel nick-named Rama. The story approaches such a momentous event from a variety of perspectives, including the political, scientific and philosophical. It mostly withstands the test of time and offers an interesting mystery that keeps the reader wondering.
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  • TimK
    3.0 out of 5 stars Rating 2.5 of 5.0
    Reviewed in Canada on May 31, 2024
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    Kept reading the book always with belief "there was more to come" compounded with the fact that Arthur Clark wrote this. It never really materialized.

    The book was very draggy in parts not encouraging me to read it as aggressively as I normally would.
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  • ROB J
    5.0 out of 5 stars Science Fiction must Read
    Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2024
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    I read this back when it was first published. Still is a great read today. Timeless.
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  • Richard K Ngethe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intergalactic perfection
    Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2023
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    Interstellar magnificence, astronomical splendour. Sci-FI at its very best.

    (Silly that my review needs a minimum of 18 words. Draconian.)
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  • Alberto
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo
    Reviewed in Italy on June 3, 2025
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    Tutto regolare
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  • Armin Salmasi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in Sweden on September 2, 2024
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    Good read. Highly recommend
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  • Erwan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable lecture
    Reviewed in France on July 17, 2018
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    Ce livre est pour moi l'un des meilleurs de Arthur C. Clarke.
    Il nous raconte la découverte et la visite d'un vaisseau spatial à la dérive dans une ambiance très immersive.
    Cette ambiance ainsi que des images fortes sont gravées dans ma mémoire.
    J'ai lu ce livre en version originale, et je le recommande à ceux qui découvrent la lecture en anglais: c'est court et d'un niveau très abordable.
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  • Doctor Moss
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Novel of Wonder and Adventure by a Master
    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024
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    Arthur C. Clarke was a master. I’ve read this one several times now, but probably not for about twenty years. As time goes by, science fiction from the classic era gets filtered over and over until not too many books are still standing. This is definitely one of them, in a small group that maybe also includes Clarke’s Childhood’s End and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    Much of this one is an adventure story, a throwback for current readers to a time when the wonder of space exploration and first discoveries of alien life was all you really needed or looked for.

    We passed through, hopefully, an era of high action, high pace where plots hit you with cosmic scale catastrophe and intrigue every chapter. By comparison, Clarke’s plot here rides a fairly even keel.

    An object has been detected, passing through our solar system. At first it is thought to be an asteroid or comet, but its orbit and behavior give it away. It’s technological. It’s headed for a high speed pass around the sun, and we’ve detected it early enough to mount an exploratory mission, in this year of 2131 when much of the solar system has been colonized and interplanetary space flight is relatively routine.

    Commander Norton, through whose eyes much of the story is seen, commands the Endeavour to a docking with the object, now named Rama. Rama is a large, cylinder-shaped object 50 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide.

    That’s big. Big enough to be a generational ship of some sort, or who knows what, given that we have no idea of its origin or purpose.

    The story is the story of Norton’s crew’s mission to explore Rama and determine as much as they, and supporting scientists, can during the time it is safe to fly along with Rama, as it approaches the sun and then either heads back out of the solar system or alters course in some to-be-determined way.

    The plot peaks are mostly produced by Rama — its unexpected and enigmatic features and behavior. The plot is also sustained by political and personal conflicts and agendas among the politicians and scientists on Earth and its colonies. To be honest, on my reading, those conflicts and personalities are background, I won’t say background “noise” but close to it, buzzing around the adventures of the Endeavour and its crew.

    There’s no superhero stuff, although some heroics certainly, and no monsters, although there is certainly danger as well. To really get into the spirit of the book, you have to let yourself fall into the experience of first contact and the wonder and mystery of a truly alien encounter.

    Not to give too much away, but we don’t meet the Ramans themselves. Also in my reading, that’s a strength of the book (as it is in Clarke’s 2001). As readers we are left to imagine the Ramans, with an uncertainty of 100%. That’s the thing about aliens and their artifacts. They are alien.

    I can’t let this go without mentioning the parallels between Clarke’s story, written more than fifty years ago, and the real-world passage of ‘Oumuamua through our solar system in 2017. The parallels are eerie, especially if you buy into Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s claims that ‘Oumuamua exhibited signs of a technological artifact itself (I don’t).
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  • Jopske
    4.0 out of 5 stars Originele plot, goed geschreven
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on July 15, 2016
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    Originele plot, goed geschreven. Mooie wendingen en verhaallijn. Aanrader voor Clarke liefhebbers. Helaas, ondanks de pseudo internationale setting, geschreven vanuit de Amerikaanse (militaire) cultuur.
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