- Life on other planets, Fiction, Science fiction, English Science fiction
Book 3 of Clarke's Rama series is about an alien ghost ship that enters the solar system. This book picks up with the story of the crew who stayed aboard Rama at the end of Rama 2.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 511
- Publisher
- Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Bantam Books, RosettaBooks
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Chinese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780795325441
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventuall
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