A near fine copy. Cover art by Brian Boyle. 204 likes. There was a very small variation-hard to detect, but quite unmistakable, and extremely regular. Pictorial wrappers. As they pass through our galaxy, they take as much notice of us as we would an insect on the side of the road. Rendezvous With Rama Preface by Anonymous I was introduced to Rendezvous With Rama by my father, who had accumulated a substantial collection of science-fiction novels and short-stories in his younger days. The sunlight reflected from Rama was not, after all, absolutely constant in its intensity. Add to Watchlist. Rendezvous with Rama works best as a stand-alone book. UPD Publishing Corporation, New York, 1973. Like all the other asteroids, Raina was indeed spinning. Contributions by James White, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, and others. ; Octavo. Classic Serial. We soon call the great visitor Rama. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke was the 1973 Nebula Award winner and 1974 Hugo Award winner for best novel. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke 1 Spaceguard 2 Intruder 3 Rama and Sita 4 Rendezvous 5 First EVA 6 Committee 7 Two Wives 8 Through the Hub 9 Reconnaissance 10 Descent into Darkness 11 Men, Women and Monkeys . Added to Watchlist. A team of astronauts is sent on a mission to explore a giant interstellar spaceship hurtling toward the sun. The Ramans are alien to us in every sense of the word. Rendezvous with Rama is a Science Fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, in which a giant asteroid comes shooting through the Solar System, circa 2131 AD.By the time it's realized that the visitor is actually a hollow artificial cylinder, only one human spaceship can even briefly reach the object and explore it before it slingshots around the Sun and returns to the depths of space. But whereas the normal "day" for an asteroid was several hours, Rama's was only four minutes. Rendezvous with Rama is a first-contact narrative describing humanity’s response to the perhaps inexplicable intrusion into our Solar System of a vast interstellar craft, whose mission is unknown and perhaps unknowable, though no monkey-brain human being in 2131 is willing to countenance that thought. He felt that it was one of the best science-fiction books that one could read, and after Unknowable. Rendezvous With Rama. First Edition. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Rendezvous with Rama. If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. Endeavour manages to rendezvous with Rama one month after the space ship first comes to Earth’s attention, when the giant alien spacecraft already is within Venus’ orbit. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, Aug 12, 1974, Ballantine Books edition, Dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C Clarke, set in the 22nd century. 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