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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
They went with Rendezvous with Rama instead of 2001, I think.
I'm not sure if I agree with the choice.
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That's what I was thinking too, Monkey. I love Arthur C Clarke's stuff generally, but I have to confess to (secretly) being mightily disappointed by the Rama books. I couldn't find in them any of the sense of awe and excitement at the cosmos that I myself felt just at the concept behind them; the novels just seemed to be a series of encounters with unexplainable things, and then more unexplainable things, and then yet more unexplainable things, and then the book stopped.
2001 may not have been all that great a novel as writing goes, but even these decades later, part of me is still out there orbiting Saturn, wanting to journey through the stargate.