Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C Clarke

Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C Clarke

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time 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 artefact. It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ... Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973 Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974 Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973

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.

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ISBN 13	9780575077331
ISBN 10	0575077336
Titre	Rendezvous With Rama
Auteur	Sir Arthur C Clarke
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Orion Publishing Co
Année de publication	2006-04-13
Nombre de pages	256
Prix	Winner of John W Campbell Award 1974 (UK), Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1974 (UK)
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