Rama arthur c clarke6/10/2023 The entire rest of the book just involves the crew making tentative explorations into the strange vessel. It’s so large that it generates its own gravity. Paradoxically, the vessel has to be at least several hundred thousand years old, but everything inside it seems brand new. When they arrive, the find an empty, enormous vessel that appears to be some sort of generation ship but an empty one, and barren. There is only one ship that can intercept it. Rama appears in the solar system and causes immediate consternation. I’m about to spoil a forty-eight year old book, so don’t read further if you don’t want to know what happens. Not to mention, I personally found the ending to this book incredibly anti-climactic. But there are just so many better stories these days that not only have cool science and weird situations (which is what this book has going for it) but also have characters and emotions as well. I can see how something like this published fifty years ago would have been a big deal. Rendezvous with Rama, which is a Hugo award winner, was published in 1973. And it tricked me! I was really into it for like the first twenty pages (hard not to pay attention when a giant asteroid pulverizes Italy), but once the crew of the Endeavor were introduced, this book became pretty dull for me.
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