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  Rama II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rama II is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1989.
Rama II is the first novel of the "new" Rama series, as Rendezvous with Rama is not always counted as part of it.
Rama II brings new characters into a new story arc mostly unrelated to the original and largely is a setup for its own sequels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rama_II   (314 words)

  
 SF REVIEWS.NET: Rendezvous with Rama / Arthur C. Clarke
Christened Rama, the object is a massive cylinder, rotating rapidly on its central axis.
Then there is the additional nuisance of a thermonuclear warhead that has been fired at Rama by the paranoid colonists of Mercury, who incidentally haven't bothered to give the astronauts aboard enough advance notice to clear out in time.
Rendezvous with Rama is about exploration and discovery, and the way in which, even if solid answers are not always found, such discoveries change the course of our history forever.
www.sfreviews.net /rama.html   (551 words)

  
 Review - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Rama- a metallic cylinder approaching the sun at a tremendous velocity.
In Rendezvous he speculates about what would happen if an obviously alien creation was found to be travelling on a course that would take it through our solar system.
A hastily arranged exploration party is sent to investigate Rama and finds that it is devoid of life (or is it) but I won't say too much otherwise there's no point reading it.
www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/ClarkeArthurC/RendezvousWithRama/RendezvousWithRamaReview.htm   (255 words)

  
 Rendezvous With Rama film movie trailer review at The Z Review
Rendezvous With Rama has been in development as a movie since 1997 but things have started to seriously move on the project this year.
The premise of Rama is that an giant alien spaceship is discovered to be on a collision course with the Sun.
Rendezvous With Rama is the first part of a quartet of books by Arthur C.Clarke, the others being titled Rama II, Garden Of Rama, Rama Revealed.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/r/rendezvouswithrama.htm   (702 words)

  
 Rendezvous with Rama - Boxshots
Without even reading them, you know what your orders will be: to rendezvous with the giant ship, to explore it, to meet with its inhabitants, and to return home before it speeds on its orbit away from the solar system.
Rendezvous with Rama is the first computer adventure to be produced in collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke.
The novel Rendezvous with Rama has won three highest science fiction awards: the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Awards.
www.adventurearchiv.de /r/ramarendezbox.htm   (381 words)

  
 Rama II - TheBestLinks.com - Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Thailand, IBM PC compatible, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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It reverts Clarke's vision of human colonies throughout the Solar System (as seen in Rendezvous with Rama) through a global economic crisis that forced their deactivation.
www.thebestlinks.com /Rama_II.html   (253 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Anyone waiting for Rendezvous With Rama?
Rendezvous With Rama is by far the most anticipating movie for me ever.
Rama II and the two sequels, are, in scale and complexity, exponentially bigger than Rendezvous with Rama, and I don't think any studio would bet on a gamble like this one.
While a Rama series would be awesome, it would be a very hard adaptation.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=160511   (769 words)

  
 Rendezvous with Rama download @ Game Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rendezvous with Rama is a disappointing game based on Arthur C. Clarke's classic sci-fi novel of the same name.
As captain of the ship, your task is to dock with and explore Rama, a huge alien vessel complete with large cities and strange mechanical inhabitants.
Interactions with your crew and other characters, however, are minimal, and most of the time you will be staring at vast areas of Rama that are depressingly devoid of life.
free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/adventure/games_p_r/rendezvous_with_rama.html   (194 words)

  
 moviefans.de !!! Rama... Archiv...
Rama will be ground breaking and possibly even record breaking in its digital effects.
Rendezvous With Rama the movie promises to be a "hard" science fiction film filled with tension, action, thrills and above all else, a profound sense of wonder.
Brick's adaptation of Rendezvous With Rama is filled with these kinds of visual epiphanies, like when the ice breaks across the Cylindrical Sea, or the first appearance of the Biots, or the first glimpse of Rama as the Endeavour approaches Jupiter.
www.moviefans.de /rama/archiv.html   (1699 words)

  
 Amazon.de:  Rendezvous with Rama.: English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rendezvous With Rama is a colossus of Science Fiction, by The Colossus of Science Fiction.
I selected "Rendezvous With Rama" as one of the novels for my first Science Fiction class as an example of the "hard science" sub-genre of the field even though it is admittedly atypical.
The other three books were co-written by Clarke with Gentry Lee and essentially they answer the questions raised by "Rendezvous With Rama." However, I liked the way this novel ended, with the explorers convinced the glass was half empty at best because of their inability to understand everything they found inside Rama.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553287893   (1746 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Garden of Rama: Books: Arthur C. Clarke,Gentry Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Introduced in Clarke's 1973 Hugo- and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama and most recently seen in Clarke and Lee's Rama II, the massive spacecraft Rama is back, but the luster and sense of wonder generated by its first appearances have eroded.
In Rama II, the authors had to slow down a little, as they had to introduce a new set of characters, rediscover the old set, and populate a world (not easy tasks!).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553298178?v=glance   (1693 words)

  
 FarShores News story: 'Rendezvous With Rama' makes it to big screen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Penned in 1973 by sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke, the book Rendezvous with Rama is about to become a movie and is set for release sometime in 2003.
A deep-space probe sent to investigate then reveals the unthinkable; Rama is no natural object but an interstellar spacecraft from an alien civilisation.
Attempts to communicate by conventional means from Earth fail and, with their imaginations fired, a team of space explorers are sent from earth on board the spaceship Endeavour to try and establish contact.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/nrr.htm   (239 words)

  
 Reading Binge, Part II: Rendezvous with Rama -- Steve Kehlet's Pages
This time I chose Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clark (yes, the same guy that wrote 2001 and 2010).
Rama II was by far my favorite of the Rama books that I did read.
Anyway, the Rama series is all quite good, but I haven't read the last book yet.
www.kehlet.cx /articles/53.html   (943 words)

  
 Rendezvous With Rama review
In addition, RWR is also headed for the big screen, helmed by none other than David "Seven / Fight Club" Fincher and reportedly starring Morgan Freeman.
RWR has also been turned into two games: a 1996 offering from Sierra and Telarium's 1984 game, which is today's subject.
RWR isn't a disaster - far from it - and had it been released by most other companies, it would be a decent adventure.
hjem.get2net.dk /gunn/Reviews/Rama_review.html   (1129 words)

  
 Rama Review and Walkthrough
From what I remember from the books, the Rama game seems to be loyal to the basic storyline and ideas introduced in the series, particularly in the depiction of the alien lifeforms living inside the Rama spacecraft, and the general geography of the place.
Rama is covered under Sierra's usual return policy - if you felt you got a lemon, your loss is limited to your postage and insurance costs in returning the game.
A significant characteristic of Rama is its randomization of play components, affecting inventory item locations, the timing of animation sequences, a few puzzles, and certain destination locations in the central plains.
www.balmoralsoftware.com /rama/rama.htm   (9868 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Rendezvous with Rama at Epinions.com
Inside Rama, an entire ecosphere is discovered, complete with air, weather, buildings, and even gravity simulated by centrifugal force that the ship generates through constant spin upon its axis.
But Rama seems to be a dead ship; there are no life forms aboard her, and there are no signs that life has stirred aboard her for thousands, if not millions, of years.
As Rama nears the Sun, however, she begins to come to life, and her explorers and the human race as a whole struggle to discover the mystery of her arrival.
www.epinions.com /content_95697473156   (974 words)

  
 SciFan: Books: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards.
The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles.
From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization.
www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=118   (289 words)

  
 Books : Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama
I was gripped from page 1 of this book, but the time i got to the end, i was shaking it, hoping more pages would fall out as the ending is such a let down.
Rendezvous with Rama, unlike the sequels from Gentry Lee, focuses on Rama itself as opposed to the people exploring it.
www.programmertutorials.com /ItemId/0553287893   (441 words)

  
 TNMC Movie News: Rendezvous With Rama
Revelations is in heavy rewrites with "Panic Room" director David Fincher on "Rendezvous with Rama." Morgan will star in the Arthur C. Clark (author of "2001: A Space Odyssey") sci-fi epic.
Included in the presentation was a series of conceptual drawings, a digital model of the Rama spacecraft as well as a model of a Biot.
Among them are several interior shots of the Rama vessel and one sketch of the octo-spiders.
www.tnmc.org /gnews/rama.shtml   (1144 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972.
Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a thirty-mile-long cylindrical alien starship that passes through Earth's solar system on its way to somewhere else, and a group of human explorers sent to examine it.
The "Rama" of the title is the starship, which is initially mistaken for a comet and named after the Hindu deity.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Rendezvous_with_Rama   (306 words)

  
 IGN: Rendezvous with Rama, Slowly But Surely
March 18, 2003 - It's been months since we heard anything on the Rendezvous with Rama project, which is already two-and-a-half years in the making.
Clarke's Rama, the first of a trilogy of novels, is set in the not-so-distant future; it's an interesting tale about a gargantuan, alien cylinder that is detected entering the solar system, prompting a special exploratory operation by astronauts from several countries.
The book is not at all a fast-paced action story, but rather a character study of the mission's participants and how they react to the wonders inside the cylinder.
filmforce.ign.com /articles/389/389882p1.html   (317 words)

  
 wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction
Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans.
Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II.
Rendezvous with Rama is book number 1 in the The Rama Series.
www.wotmania.com /storebook.asp?ID=421   (459 words)

  
 Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke - Fadedgiant Authors, Books, Links, Quotes
SF Reviews: Rendezvous With Rama - A review of Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction novel.
Near Earth Object Foundation: Rendezvous with Rama Chapter One - Online text of chapter one printed with permission from Arthur C. Clarke.
Revelations Entertainment: Rendezvous With Rama Slideshow - Visual media site that features an online slideshow of Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's April 4th appearance at COMDEX, where they discussed Digital Revelations and the massive undertaking involved in bringing Arthur C. Clarke's classic novel Rendezvous with Rama to the big screen.
www.fadedgiant.net /html/rendezvous_with_rama.htm   (406 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Rendezvous with Rama or The Fountain?
So let's say Rendevous with Rama and The Fountain come out on the the same weekend, and you only have enough money for ONE.
Rendezvous with Rama is an excellent story, and the movie could turn out terrific, but it's only a starting point for a much bigger and more exciting storyline explored in the next 3 novels.
Also, while "Rendezvous With Rama" was a good read, it really didn't have that mindblowing of a plot.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=184975   (585 words)

  
 STAR TREK BBS - Shore Leave Forum - ACC's Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II et al
RE: ACC's Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II et al by Bondo @ 00:39:11 on Sep 08
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www.trekweb.com /stbbs/showThread.php?bid=FldwoPP0qETo2&tid=3f59303acf863&threadView=2   (1068 words)

  
 Rendezvous with Rama
An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke’s best novels—it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards.
I like how much of what is inside Rama is never really understood by the explorers or the reader.
The reader, like the explorers themselves, feel like the mission to explore Rama is somewhat of a failure since there was so much left unexplored and unexplained.
book.awardannals.com /detail/0553287893   (924 words)

  
 IGN: Rendezvous with Rama Trailer, Wallpaper, Pictures, Soundtrack and More.
IGN: Rendezvous with Rama Trailer, Wallpaper, Pictures, Soundtrack and More.
When a myserious alien cylinder is detected on the fringes of the solar system, an expedition of astronauts is sent to investigate.
Rendezvous with Rama, Slowly But Surely - March 18, 2003
filmforce.ign.com /objects/545/545854.html   (135 words)

  
 Rendezvous With Rama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
First of all, Lori has been doing brainstorming sessions (which is how I've been involved) to determine which elements of the book work best, the things that absolutely, positively have to be in the film.
These meetings are to come up with a loose outline before she meets with Andy next Tuesday to have their first script conference.
If someone out there has an observation on Rama that is noteworthy or even profound, I know Lori'd be eager to hear and consider it.
members.aol.com /Brickman5/newpage24.htm   (636 words)

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