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~ Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel - 1973, the British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel - 1973, the Hugo Award for Best Novel - 1974, the Jupiter Award for Best Novel - 1974, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - 1974
SF Masterworks: Rendezvous with Rama
Weighing more than ten trillion tons and hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed, few things are at first known about the celestial object that astronomers have dubbed 'Rama', but a subsequent space probe discovers that Rama is no natural object. It is an interstellar space craft. No one knows why they have come, and the encounter will kindle their wildest dreams and fan their darkest fears . . .
Allowing readers to experience the chilling touch of the alien, not-quite knowable element of what could possibly happen, Rendezvous with Rama proves that the chief ingredient of a superior science-fiction novel is story.
"Rendezvous with Rama offers something for everybody: politics, religion, and all kinds of science wrapped up in a taut mystery-suspense." -- Publisher's Weekly
"There are perpetual surprises, constant evocation of the sense of wonder, and occasions of the most breathless suspense." -- New York Times