{"product_id":"rendezvous-with-rama-9780358380221","title":"Rendezvous with Rama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arthur C. Clarke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Alien Contact\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAstronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel --\"a stone-cold classic\" of hard sci-fi (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or \"biots,\" that inhabit the ship. But what they don't find is an alien presence. So who--and where--are the Ramans?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOften listed as one of Clarke's finest novels, \u003cem\u003eRendezvous with Rama\u003c\/em\u003e won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, \u003cem\u003eRendezvous with Rama\u003c\/em\u003e offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Clarke is splendid . . . We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45116487762071,"sku":"9780358380221","price":1236.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780358380221.webp?v=1769206392","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rendezvous-with-rama-9780358380221","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}