Jumping in late, but I thought Rama 2 was a great sequel. While Rendezvous with Rama had the mood of a NASA science expedition, Rama 2 modeled reality TV, giving it legitimacy in my (then) teenage mind. The later books didn't add much.
Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda (Sent from my phone) On Mon, 14 Dec, 2020, 18:50 Alaric Snell-Pym, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/12/2020 16:56, Ashwin Nanjappa wrote: > > My reading was severely hampered this year due to our son being at home > all > > day. With helping him all day at home we ended up having much less energy > > at the end of the day for reading or watching something. But I was part > of > > a bookclub at work and through that I got to read stuff from outside my > > "comfort zone". Some of the books I can recommend this year: > > > > - Rendezvous with Rama: First book in Arthur C Clarke's Rama series. I > love > > that these are short reads and how "hard" Clarke goes into the science of > > the worlds he creates. > > Yeah! That book made a big impression on me as a kid. The sequels aren't > as good and are very different but are still fun to read in their own way. > > But the sheer mystery of Rama, sustained by the limited duration the > team gets to explore, was epic. > > -- > Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) > http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ > >
