Does this even remotely come close to the tight, succinct writing in Rendezvous with Rama? A spear-toting Eskimo or a peg-legged pirate wouldn't seem out of place in this group, but an intelligently written character would. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century,? ?startling, sensational and perhaps even??deadly. “This is a space trip that no reader will want to miss.”—PlayboyYears ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Maybe it was a little short on character development, but with such a wonderful world to explore, who cares? Transparent villains: 3 Rama II [Mass Market Paperback] Clarke, Arthur C. Condition: New. Silly one dimensional people populate the book and keep doing cringe worthy things thorough. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational—and perhaps even deadly.“Offers one surprise after another.”—The New York Times“A masterpiece . Mass Market Paperback, 9780553286588, 0553286587 Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien? A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. 1990. Buy This Book. ?assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. But nothing can prepare them? 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. If you've read "Rendezvous with Rama" and haven't read this book yet, then please please PLEASE don't read it! thankfully. Set in the 2130's, the story involves a 50-kilometre (31 mile) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System.
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?startling, sensational and perhaps even??deadly. We neither know nor care about their fate. Mr. Clarke has a duty to defend the integrity of his visions. -- The Houston Post. Free shipping. Rama serves as a background, but the main scope is about the human race ways of society.If you're interested in that as a topic, they are well worth reading. Condition: New.
Most of the gaggle of Knots Landing rejects don't care at all about Rama II and since the book focuses on their bickering, their pregnancies, and their murders, neither will you. This is just a poor approximation to the kinds of reflections that good science fiction can provoke; yet it gives you a sense of the thoughts that the original novel stirred.
. RWR opened so many doors and left so many interesting questions unanswered that I was utterly astonished to discover that there exists someone so enfeebled (Gentry Lee) as to be able to write a RWR sequel that isn't even remotely interesting. Undertake this book only with a moistened thumb at the ready, because you'll be applying it while skipping through page after page of "character development" that would make Judy Blume readers recoil in disappointment if their hearts hadn't already stopped beating from sheer disintrest. The book is awful-the worst sort of 4th rate pulp sci-fi fiction. Number of those resolved in the book: uhhh... 1? By putting his name to trash, he implicitly if not explicitly participates in the destruction of what is magnificent. Those reviewers who have described this book as a soap opera are not being overly harsh in their criticism. Who made Rama? And from what I hear, this is the high water mark of the Gentry Lee sequels. Search for all books with this author and title. ?technology and culture. Where did it come from? Ratings and Reviews. ?another ship is discovered hurtling toward us.
Softcover, Imprin... I can only speak for sci-fi novels because that's what I primarily read but, BAD IDEA! The Rama sequels are very different from the original book's vector. "Rama II" rivals "Exorcist II: The Heretic" as perhaps the worst sequel ever. My analogy may sound like a caricature, but it is not. He plops in all the drama of a TV soap opera with abandon. In offering this, it teaches us valuable lessons like humility, tolerance and understanding. Rama II and it's sequals leave us with short-sighted bureaucrats, beautiful-but-power-mad Italian women, impossibly altruistic scientists, amoral lawyers, American corporate types who want to use Raman technology to create new weapons (boy, that's not cliche! Seller Inventory # MBSN0553286587, More information about this seller
This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Be prepared to wade through several chapters of religionist thought[provoking bull] between the "action sequences", not something many A.C.C. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational -- and perhaps even deadly. The original book in this series was very good-close to a classic.
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