Rama Revealed

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Years after the appearance in the solar system of the immense, deserted spaceship named by its discoverers Rama, a second craft arrived, destined to become home for a group of human colonists. But now the colony has become a brutal dictatorship, committing genocide against its peaceful alien neighbours and terrorizing its own inhabitants.
Nicole Wakefield, condemned to death for treason, has escaped and crossed the Cylindrical Sea to the island of mysterious skyscrapers which the humans call New York. There she is reunited with her husband, and soon they are joined by others of their family and friends. But pursuit is not far behind and they are forced to flee to the subterranean corridors of New York inhabited by the menacing octospiders.
So begins the greatest adventure of all the Rama cycle, a story of massive scope and extraordinary revelations - and a superb climax to the series that began with Arthur C. Clarke's cldissic Rendezvous with Rama, the only sf novel ever to... Tovább

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Years after the appearance in the solar system of the immense, deserted spaceship named by its discoverers Rama, a second craft arrived, destined to become home for a group of human colonists. But now the colony has become a brutal dictatorship, committing genocide against its peaceful alien neighbours and terrorizing its own inhabitants.
Nicole Wakefield, condemned to death for treason, has escaped and crossed the Cylindrical Sea to the island of mysterious skyscrapers which the humans call New York. There she is reunited with her husband, and soon they are joined by others of their family and friends. But pursuit is not far behind and they are forced to flee to the subterranean corridors of New York inhabited by the menacing octospiders.
So begins the greatest adventure of all the Rama cycle, a story of massive scope and extraordinary revelations - and a superb climax to the series that began with Arthur C. Clarke's cldissic Rendezvous with Rama, the only sf novel ever to scoop all the major awards.
Arthur C. Clarke is probably the world's best-known and bestselling science fiction writer; his seventieth birthday in December 1987 was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset. He has won innumerable international awards for his fiction, for his science writing, and for his inspirational role as one of the chief prophets of the space age. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001:ASpace Odyssey set new standards for sf films. As the presenter of the TV senes Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World and its successors Clarke has become a household name. He was made a CBE in 1989. He lives in Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke's most recent novel was The Hammer of God.
Gentry Lee has been chief engineer for NASA's Project Galileo and director of science for the Viking mission to Mars. He was Carl Sagan's partner in the creation, development and implementation of the Cosmos television series and was coauthor, with Arthur C. Clarke, of Cradle, Rama II and The Garden of Rama. Vissza