Author leaves some mysteries totally unexplained, and to each reader's imagination. The book lets the reader explore and incrementally discover many unknown mysteries in rama as the characters discover them. Other than those minor complaints, a nice r...  Read More

All characters are a bit of an oddball, but believable. This is a topic clarke also examines in the celebrated short stories rescue party and jupiter five.

There are no real lulls here, as the crew of the endeavour explores a brand new world. It requires the reader to visualize complex and incongruous machines and systems. The design of the “cities’ is marvelous and the technical capabilities of the biot...  Read More

It's not heavy on the sci-fi technobabble which makes it a nice introduction for a young adullt that has never tried science fiction. It's a kind of sci fi that i don't see as much anymore, so i’ll always love it.

Rendezvous with rama" is about a huge alien spaceship that enters our solar system. A crew of humans is sent to investigate and learn about the ship. The book is a reflection on the deep mysteries of the cosmos and man's insatiable thirst for explorat...  Read More