Rendezvous With Rama
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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 . . .Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1974Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1973Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1974Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1973Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780575088009
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- Pub date: 05.03.12
- RRP: $27.99
- Format: Electronic book text
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Arthur C. Clarke
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.
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