![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1973, it is the only sf novel ever to scoop all he major awards - five in the English language, including the Hugo, the Nebula and the British SF Award. Clarke's all-time bestselling novels, but as one of the most popular classics of modern science-fiction. Rendezvous with Rama is hailed not only as one of Arthur C. But since was bad enough to lead me to stop reading the series three quarters of the way through, I'm not sure it's an experience that I'm going to enjoy. The book doesn't really add anything to its predecessor, I guess you have to read its two sequels for that. ![]() Every other character was abused as a child and that's used either as an excuse for them growing up to be an immoral charlatan or as proof that they have lots of moral fortitude. Each of them has to be horrible or lovely, with their actions being over the top so we can't get the two groups muddled. All of Gentry Lee's characters are one-dimensional stereotypes of fictional characters. Here we get a hundred pages of inept character development before they finally reach the spacecraft. The cosmonauts are inside Rama within about ten pages. One of the good things about this book's predecessor is how quickly it gets into the action. ![]() This book is frightfully dull but not quite bad enough to warrant quitting the series. Contrary to what I said in my review of I now recall that four years ago I actually read the first three books in this quadrilogy, not just the first two. ![]()
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