Rendezvous With Rama
$21.86
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2006
Summary
Rama: Encounter of the First Kind
Rama is here. A gargantuan alien spacecraft, a perfect cylinder fifty kilometers long, hurtles through our solar system.
Spinning, speeding, and utterly enigmatic, Rama represents a technological leap beyond human comprehension.
Mankind faces its first interstellar visitor. Investigation is paramount. But what will we find within?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575077331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575077336 |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Author: | Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
About The Author
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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