Rendezvous with rama

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JIM BURNS - Alien Landscape - Illustration for Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke - item by lcart3.narod

Jimmy Pak, stranded on the far side of the cylindrical sea, runs into a biological robot, or Biot, as Clarke called them. The giant spikes, the drive of Rama, hang in the sky, bolts of electricity still playing around them. Jimmy's crashed sky bike can be seen in the distance, in the process of being dismantled by other Biots. It occurs to me the Rendevous with Rama is the only science fiction novel I know that has a cyclist as hero, albeit a sky cyclist.

Work in progress of Rama, the titular ship from Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

Rama II the sequel to Rendezvous with Rama A.C.Clarke & Gentry Lee

The trouble with science fiction classics is that they tend to be vehicles for new ideas for their time, but over the years can become dated. Worse, the...

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Rendezvous with Rama