Expand your mind and listen to this book.If one feature marks out Arthur C. After interest in the dangers of asteroid strikes was heightened by a series of Hollywood disaster films, the United States Congress gave NASA authorisation and funding to support Spaceguard." This man helped to make things happen by telling the world what they would look like. A real project named Spaceguard was initiated in 1992, named after Clarke's fictional project. I can never decide which is better.Īs an example of the power of the thinking here I have clipped in this section from Wikipedia… "Clarke invented the space study program which detects Rama, Project Spaceguard, as a method of identifying near-Earth objects on Earth-impact trajectories in the novel it was initiated after an asteroid struck Italy on 11 September 2077, destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice. This one and Larry Niven's 'Mote in God's Eye'. There are two great books about the first contact with aliens. But the scope he gives you to think about what he is describing is fantastic. So his characterisation is not as strong as you might like. He extrapolates a future, populates it, designs a whole world in a spaceship that is the size of Greater London and then lets you explore it. When you think that it was written in 1973! Man was still walking and driving on the moon at that time. The imagination displayed in this book is mind blowing. Where does Rendezvous with Rama rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? One of the best Sci Fi books written - seriously! I suggest you read the book and listen to the book and then do one of them once more, be a Raman.
The narrator does suck, but the story still comes through, due to strong writing. Maybe I am a Raman, they do everything in three's.
This is my third time to read or listen to it. You can not consider yourself knowledgeable in Science fiction literature if you have not read this book.
The whole idea of a spaceship like this was amazing to begin with, but if it was to happen, my money is Clarke will have pictured it more accurately then anybody else. His writing is not as sensational as some of today's writing, but his writing is more realistic. I've mentioned it before, but when Clarke writes, it is like you are there or your watching it on the news. Clarke writes in a conservative matter, but he has sees the future better then anyone. You may say you have heard it all before, but with the exception of marriage contracts (Robert Heinlein) you heard it here first. Simps, Biots,holograms, spaceguard,aerobatic flyer,a tenth planet, women in space, marriage contracts, a man with a wife on two different planets, a woman with two husbands, generation ships, etc.
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