Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C Clarke

Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C Clarke

In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose in 2131? Who is inside it? And why?

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also 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 lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.

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ISBN 13	9780575082533
ISBN 10	0575082534
Title	Rendezvous With Rama
Author	Sir Arthur C Clarke
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2009-04-02
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1974 (UK), Winner of John W Campbell Award 1974 (UK)
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