Rendezvous With Rama
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Publishing Details
Rendezvous With Rama
By (Author) Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st July 2006
13th April 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Winner of John W Campbell Award 1974 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 24mm
227g
Description
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.It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated...Author Bio
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.
