Rama II: Rama Series, Book 2 (Unabridged)
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2.8 • 16 Ratings
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- £19.99
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- £19.99
Publisher Description
The sequel to Rendezvous with Rama: the only SF novel to sweep all SF awards and one of the best sellers of all time.
In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind; but most of its mysteries remained unsolved.…
Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected; four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. But this time, Earth is ready. And maybe now, with the arrival of Rama II, some of the questions posed by Rama will at last be answered.
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first-class honours from King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won Kalinga Prize, The Aviation Space-Writers' Prize, and The Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, The Sentinel. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.
Customer Reviews
Rama 2
Bloated and dull, far from his
Best. Leaves more questions than answers. 15 hrs and I’m none the wiser and not entertained. The final line left me shaking my head in annoyance both with the characters, dialogue and plot. Literally a waste of time.
Awful
Is this an episode of coronation street? I can’t believe Arthur C Clarke had anything to do with this garbage.
Not Arthur C Clark
If I’d known that Gentry Lee wrote this I would never have spent £10 on it - it’s not clear from the graphic. All Clarke’s later books (according to Lee) were written by Gentry Lee from ideas scribbled on a piece of paper. I doubt if Clarke even read them, it was just using his name as a selling point. Having started to listen to this one, it has very little science fiction or even science in it - it’s more like East Enders and I’d never watch that.