One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won Kalinga Prize, The Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and The Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. Sawyer, who explains why Rendezvous with Rama will make the listener ‘feel both humbled and exhilarated at the same time’.Īrthur C. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits - just behind a Raman airlock door.īonus Audio: Includes an exclusive introduction by Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. It will kindle their wildest dreams.and fan their darkest fears. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft.

Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object.

And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed.

It is huge, weighing more than 10 trillion tons. Winner of the 1973 Nebula and BSFA Awards and the 1974 Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards.Īt first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. Please note that written reviews prior to that date refer to a different narrator. He was awarded the CBE in 1989.This audiobook was re-recorded with a new narrator, and the new product uploaded on 25th June 2014. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction.

Rendezvous with rama by arthur c clarke