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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
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.
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I would definitely separate the original Rama book from any of the Sequels. The original novel, I think does a good job of describing how an encounter with an alien artifact might go if one such artifact was making a brief visit to the solar system. The other novels... well, lets just say I am disappointed in most of Clarke's works after 2010.
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Bill