very good book, i do recommend it. there's a sequel also.... -------------- Original message -------------- From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pulling several threads together, "Rendezvous with Rama" is one of the many books I own but have not yet read. Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorite authors and I have owned this book for decades. Must be time to dust that puppy off.
~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We were just talking about this last week... > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=46413 > > Freeman's Rama Close To Reality? > > Morgan Freeman told SCI FI Wire that his long-held dream of producing > and starring in a big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's SF novel > Rendezvous With Rama is closer than ever to becoming a reality. > > "That is going to happen," Freeman said in an interview while promoting > his latest film, The Bucket List. "Thank heaven, that is going to > happen. We're looking for that to start in the next year." > > Rendezvous with Rama, which was published in 1972, follows a group of > human explorers who intercept and try to unlock the secrets of an alien > spaceship that has approached Earth. Freeman would play the commander of > the Endeavor, the deep-space maintenance ship used to rendezvous with > the alien craft. > > "The story itself is the idea that we can be visited from outer space," > Freeman said. "The idea that we're the only living intelligent creatures > is ... you can't really believe that. Well, you can, but if you think > about it for a while, what if there are other intelligent creatures--and > I firmly believe there are--what does that tell us? We're going to > imagine that they're going to have to look something like us, and if > they don't look like us what does that tell us about God?" > > Freeman has had Rendezvous With Rama on his radar for nearly a decade, > but this is the closest it's been to happening. It's listed not only as > "announced" on the Internet Movie Database, but it's also on the Web > site of Freeman's production company, Revelations Entertainment, which > classifies it as "in development." > > "We have been in close contact with Arthur C. Clarke," Freeman said. "As > a matter of fact, I went to Sri Lanka just to have a sit-down with him. > I'm very excited about this. When the people at [NASA's Jet Propulsion > Laboratory] learned that we had this project we got calls from them. > 'Any help you need, any help at all. ... '" > > Freeman added: "So we've been trying to develop a script. It's a very > large project. You have got to develop the script, and you have got to > design spaceships. And because Arthur C. Clarke wrote it, and because > it's so much real science involved, we can't take too many liberties." > --Ian Spelling > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
