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Rendezvous With Rama (S.F. Masterworks S.): Arthur C. Clarke

Rendezvous With Rama (S.F. Masterworks S.): Arthur C. Clarke

by Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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    Paperback 1974

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Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Gateway
Published: 13 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 0575077336
ISBN 13: 9780575077331
Book Overview: 'Quite memorable and at times magical... We glimpse our own future in this technological artifact - a future as magical as it is mysterious' Brian W. Aldiss
 Prizes: Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1974 and John W Campbell Award 1974.

Author Bio
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.