Rendezvous with Rama

So we find this comet/asteroid on a one-shot trip of the solar system is actually an alien artifact, and there's only one ship in range to explore it before it leaves.

Rendezvous with Rama is an interesting book, and a fairly quick read, but frankly it didn't live up to my expectations. It features a lot more description of puzzling alien structures than plot. And don't expect much in terms of brilliant dialogue or finely drawn characterization. To be fair, I found the early scenes of exploration to be quite compelling, but many of the later discoveries...more

Rendezvous with Rama is an interesting book, and a fairly quick read, but frankly it didn't live up to my expectations. It features a lot more description of puzzling alien structures than plot. And don't expect much in terms of brilliant dialogue or finely drawn characterization. To be fair, I found the early scenes of exploration to be quite compelling, but many of the later discoveries and developments seemed pointless. And I thought the "paranoid-colonists-from-Mercury" subplot added nothing to the book. Clarke leaves many unanswered questions, but I suppose that's a good reason to read the sequels.   hide

Great semi-feasible yet mind blowing sci-fi from one of the masters.

This got me into the Aerospace Business.