Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning novel -a stone-cold classic of hard sci-fi (The Guardian).An enormous cylindrical
object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of
astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft which the denizens of the solar system
name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than
ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers a forbidding cylindrical sea
mysterious and inaccessible buildings and strange machine-animal hybrids or biots that
inhabit the ship. But what they don't find is an alien presence. So who-and where-are the
Ramans? Often listed as one of Clarke's finest novels Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards
including the Hugo the Nebula the Jupiter and the British Science Fiction Awards. A
fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology Rendezvous
with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers
for generations. Mr. Clarke is splendid . . . We experience that chilling touch of the alien
the not-quite-knowable that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative. -The New
York Times
