Thread: Interesting list of the "Fifty Most Significant SF&F Books
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Old 11-18-2010, 01:47 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
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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My personal favorite Clarke novel has always been "The Songs of Distant Earth"...but I'm not sure I can tell you why.
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