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Rendezvous with Rama is a 1973 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-by-20-kilometre (31-by-12-mile) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System. 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 ...
Rama II is a science fiction novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1989. It recounts humankind's further interaction with the Ramans, first introduced in Rendezvous with Rama .
This game featured details from Rendezvous with Rama and characters from the Rama II novel. [88] Rendezvous with Rama was optioned for filmmaking in the early 21st century [89] [90] but this motion picture has remained in "development hell". In the early 2000s, actor Morgan Freeman expressed his desire to produce a movie based on Rendezvous ...
The novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms—dubbed the First-Born—who created the black monoliths.They evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species.
Rama Revealed (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last in a four-book series of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors and reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft.
The Sentinel is a collection of science fiction short stories by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, originally published in 1983.. The stories, written between 1946 and 1981, originally appeared in a number of magazines including Astounding, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Thrilling Wonder Stories, 10 Story Fantasy, If, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Boys' Life, Playboy and Omni.
The Garden of Rama is a 1991 novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke. It is the third book in the four-book Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama , Rama II , The Garden of Rama , and Rama Revealed , and follows on from where Rama II left off.
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.