Rendezvous With Rama Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Name: Rendezvous With Rama By Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

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The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time

Rendezvous With Rama Summary

Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time

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 artefact.

It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...

Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973
Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974
Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973

About Sir 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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Sku

GOR001941058

ISBN 13

9780575077331

ISBN 10

0575077336

Title

Rendezvous With Rama by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Author

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Series

S.F. Masterworks

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

20060413

Number of pages

256

Prizes

Winner of John W Campbell Award 1974 (UK) Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1974 (UK)

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