Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke & Gentry Lee
Novel 1 of 4
The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. where did it come from. who are or were the Ramas (Using Hindi Naming system) The novel won both the and awards upon its release, and is regarded as one of the cornerstones in Clarke's bibliography.
An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. So who—and where—are the Ramans?
Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
Rama II (1989)
The Garden of Rama (1991)
Rama Revealed (1993)
Gentry Lee also wrote two further novels set in the same Rama Universe.
Bright Messengers (1995)
Double Full Moon Night (1999)