Rendezvous With Rama

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

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Price : 22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780575077331
Publisher : Orion
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Weight (g) : 0.244
Publication date : July 2006
Dimensions : 197mm X 129mm X 20mm
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Author : Arthur C. Clarke
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 823.914
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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 ...

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'Quite memorable and at times magical... We glimpse our own future in this technological artifact - a future as magical as it is mysterious' Brian W. Aldiss

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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.