Rama II

#2 Rama

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee, Gentry Lee

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VICTOR GOLLANCZ
01 April 2006

Science fiction; Technology, Engineering & Agriculture; Aliens; First Contact; Generation Starships

Series: Gollancz S.F.

In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind - but most of its mysteries remained unsolved...

Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected; four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. But this time, Earth is ready.

And maybe now, with the arrival of Rama II, some of the questions posed by Rama will at last be answered.

By: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee
With: Gentry Lee
Imprint: VICTOR GOLLANCZ
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 176mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780575077225
ISBN 10: 0575077220
Series: Gollancz S.F.
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 01 April 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956. Gentry Lee held a number of important posts in NASA's deep-space exploration programme, which made him an ideal writing partner for Arthur C. Clarke. He has also been a screenwriter on Carl Saga's COSMOS TV series. Lee co-wrote RAMA II, GARDEN OF RAMA and CRADLE with Arthur C. Clarke