Review written for ClubReading.com by Barbara
Something new appears in the solar system of the year 2130-a cylindar 31 miles long and 12½ miles wide, and it’s moving ever closer to the sun. Upon investigation, it appears to be a fabricated, completely self-contained world. It also seems to be dead. The reader is treated to a fascinating exploration and to an engrossing mystery. By the way, this book won the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards.
EXCERPT FROM Rendezvous With Rama:
Jimmy hastily jerked the sticky-bomb loose and abandoned his attempt to land. He swung Dragonfly around in a wide circle, listening as he did so to the sound that wavered in his earphones. After flying only a few meters, he could tell that its intensity was falling rapidly. As Hub Control had guessed, it was extremely localized.
He paused at the last spot where he could hear it, like a faint throbbing deep in his brain. So might a primitive savage have listened in awe-struck ignorance to the low humming of a giant power transformer. And even the savage might have guessed that the sound he heard was merely the stray leakage from colossal energies, fully controlled, but biding their time.
Whatever this sound meant, Jimmy was glad to be clear of it. This was no place, among the overwhelming architecture of the South Pole, for a lone man to listen to the voice of Rama.