One of the best Sci Fi books written - seriously!

Where does Rendezvous with Rama rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The imagination displayed in this book is mind blowing. When you think that it was written in 1973! Man was still walking and driving on the moon at that time.

He extrapolates a future, populates it, designs a whole world in a spaceship that is the size of Greater London and then lets you explore it.

So his characterisation is not as strong as you might like. But the scope he gives you to think about what he is describing is fantastic.

There are two great books about the first contact with aliens.

This one and Larry Niven's 'Mote in God's Eye'. I can never decide which is better.

Any additional comments?

As an example of the power of the thinking here I have clipped in this section from Wikipedia…



"Clarke invented the space study program which detects Rama, Project Spaceguard, as a method of identifying near-Earth objects on Earth-impact trajectories; in the novel it was initiated after an asteroid struck Italy on 11 September 2077, destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.

A real project named Spaceguard was initiated in 1992, named after Clarke's fictional project. After interest in the dangers of asteroid strikes was heightened by a series of Hollywood disaster films, the United States Congress gave NASA authorisation and funding to support Spaceguard."



This man helped to make things happen by telling the world what they would look like.



Expand your mind and listen to this book.