{"product_id":"rendezvous-with-rama-9780358380221","title":"Rendezvous with Rama","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAstronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel --\"a stone-cold classic\" of hard sci-fi (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or \"biots,\" that inhabit the ship. But what they don't find is an alien presence. So who--and where--are the Ramans?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOften listed as one of Clarke's finest novels, \u003cem\u003eRendezvous with Rama\u003c\/em\u003e won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, \u003cem\u003eRendezvous with Rama\u003c\/em\u003e offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Clarke is splendid . . . We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008), one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century science fiction, wrote over fifty novels and co-wrote the movie \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eRendezvous with Rama\u003c\/i\u003e earned Clarke both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Voyager","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591321227538,"sku":"9780358380221","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3f40455-f31b-4381-b993-35f231d2996b.jpg?v=1732089482","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rendezvous-with-rama-9780358380221","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}